We know, we know. This is the 700th email you’ve gotten in the past month about maintaining collaboration in a remote work environment. There’s good reason for that: Remote collaboration is hard! Keeping your team members communicating and engaged with each other is challenging enough in a physical office. Enabling collaboration in a world of hybrid work is exponentially more difficult, and it requires continued attention, flexibil...

The opioid crisis is shifting, not ending. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics estimated that more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States between April 2020 to April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the same period the year before. As states continue to clamp down on abuse of legal prescriptions, the prevalence and variety of opioids and other illegal drugs continues to grow. These drugs and associated drug...

States are leveraging their purchasing power and implementing advanced alternative payment models to improve healthcare value. For example, the state of Texas offers an opt-in procurement collaborative across all school districts, Colorado created a private-public employer purchasing collaborative and its Medicaid agency is implementing mandatory payment models, and the state of Washington has a single Health Care Authority that oversees the s...

The nature of work changes all the time. Fax machines give way to email. Top-down edicts fall out of favor; collaborative teams take the stage. New technology makes it easier to work from home. Automation replaces menial data entry and frees employees to focus on strategic initiatives. But nothing in modern history has impacted the nature of work more than COVID-19. The disruptions of the pandemic uprooted everything we thought we knew about t...

Join us for a real-world conversation on how government finance is evolving — and how leading local government jurisdictions are responding to these changes. On May 11, Governing, Workday and Accenture will host a panel of public sector finance leaders to talk about how their organizations are meeting new demands today, how they’re preparing for the future and what role technology plays in supporting these efforts. Our distinguishe...

Boomers retiring. Gen Xers ascendent. Millennials stepping into new roles. Gen Z looking for the right skills to enter the marketplace. Workforce demographics are shifting rapidly across all industries, including state and local government. As agencies look to hire new employees – and keep current workers motivated and engaged – they need new strategies to address new challenges. In this virtual conversation on April 21, part of a...

This is an invitation-only event, open to Public Sector only. For more information or to request an invitation, please contact Brittany Roberts. If you represent a Private Sector organization and are interested in Sponsorship Opportunities, please contact Andrea Kleinbardt. Due to decades of neglect, infrastructure modernization is a critical issue. Three-quarters of infrastructure investments occur at the state and local level. In response, G...

Governing magazine’s Leadership Forums provide transformational leadership and management strategies to help state and local government elected officials, appointees and senior-level agency executives build high-performance government organizations. Faced with unique demands, government leaders have made these annual events their “must attend” day to exchange valuable ideas and spearhead industry partnerships that advance gov...

The national infrastructure landscape has never been more fertile and states and cities are leading the way! They are developing creative and innovative approaches to funding and financing critical infrastructure while also investing in performance-driven, smart, and future-ready projects in transportation, transit, water, energy, and social infrastructure. But the challenge is massive and the only way forward is through better intergovernment...