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Driving federal performance
October 2009
The first survey to benchmark public sector management practices relative to the private sector shows federal leaders have the opportunity to prioritize management practices that help them engage the workforce more fully, strengthen talent management and improve accountability.
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The road to improved compliance
September 2009
What drives performance in tax administrations is the subject of this first-of-its-kind global benchmarking study. Through in-depth research on 13 nations, this report identifies a set of best practices that can help tax administrations yield higher revenues—a total $86 billion additional dollars for the countries in this study—simply through management and operational changes.
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McKinsey on government
Review our thinking and that of experts in the field about how government transformation can happen and is happening, drawing on real examples from around the world.
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Delivering public sector efficiencies
Toby Gibbs, Suzanne Heywood, Risto Penttinen, and Warren Strickland
April 2009

Public sector organizations need to prepare now to address efficiency challenges the economic crisis is creating. We outline three practical steps for combining near-term impact with longer-term improvements in organizations' performance and health.
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How can government meet its productivity challenge?
Nancy Killefer, Tony Danker, Thomas Dohrmann, and Lenny Mendonca
July 2006

Taking a government-sector-wide perspective, the paper sets out a productivity-based approach to improving government outcomes. Through a combination of greater transparency about performance and greater support for managers in agencies, the McKinsey authors offer recommendations for how government can achieve better results from the investments it makes in the public sector.
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Government as a business
Ian Davis, managing director of McKinsey, talks about the public-sector productivity imperative.
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