"Managing for Results: Advancing the Art of Performance Measurement" was organized as a followup to a conference held two years ago on the emerging performance measurement trend in government. While the earlier conference focused on defining what performance measures are and how they might be applied, this year's event enabled participants to compare notes on their program achievements and to discuss how to make refinements and innovations.
"Performance measurement" describes a process that allocates government resources according to clearly defined strategic plans. Two of the nation's leading authorities in the field--Harry Hatry of the Urban Institute and Jay Fountain of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board--opened the conference by describing some of the newest developments in the use of outcome-oriented measures to alter legislative and managerial program priorities.
Other speakers included Roy Romer, Governor of Colorado; Joy Corning, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa; Costis Toregan, President of Public Technology, Inc., in Washington, D.C.; Lawrence Alwin, State Auditor of Texas; national political commentator Fred Barnes; LBJ School Professor Barbara Jordan; and almost 100 city managers, state and local agency chiefs, and public and nonprofit program administrators.
Coordinated by the LBJ School's Office of Conferences and Training, other sponsors included Texas Governor George W. Bush, Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock, House Speaker Pete Laney, State Comptroller John Sharp, the State Auditor's Office, the Legislative Budget Office, and the Texas Municipal League.
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