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re: Organization Performance Annotated Bibliography

Jay — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:05:20 GMT

Great listing of resources. I'm excited about reading some of the references

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re: Baldrige National Quality Program and HPCO Applications

Tracy Goldenberg — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:50:56 GMT

Thanks for your feedback, Steve. I think your point about the PBMS is a great one!

re: Baldrige National Quality Program and HPCO Applications

steve king — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:12:27 GMT

Tracy - Thanks for the article. It was thought provoking and well worth considering. Nebraska DOC implemented Quality under the leadership of then director Harold W. Clarke in 1993. John Eggers, now with NIC, was the training administrator then and he actually talked about what it would be like to go for the Baldrige Award. It has a lot of applicability to Corrections and now with the Performance-Based Measruement System (PBMS) in place there is a ready made set of performance data for those states who participate.

I like the idea that the Baldrige Criteria set forth - pulling an organization toward greater excellence/higher performance.

re: Spring 2009 HPCO Roundtable Meeting Summary

Ken — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:10:46 GMT

This is very interesting. But the police unions will always claim that they can't run "ideal" programs because they don't get enough money or personnel.

re: Shrinking Core and Expanding Periphery Key to High Performing Organizations (HPOs)

Joe Brodnicki — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:01 GMT

On target comments about unanswered questions and what keeps gov't stuck. On a really basic level, simple dialogue on 'who are our customers?' and 'what do they want?' We tend to dodge the concept of customer.

I don't think we make the effort to hear the voices of our own staff. We're so locked in a heirarhcical, mechanistic view of organzation that we fail to see the power and resources we have internally (if we can onlt get them focused). We can't form and maintain alliances (internally or externally) unless we understand and value where the other is coming from and commit to supporting them.

Check out Barry Oshry's work on organizations (Seeing Systems and Leading Systems) to get a different view on partnership, possiblites, and why it goes the way to usually goes. His organzation workshop is a great way to experience how we can (but usually don't) perform as well as we think we can.

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High Performing Corrections Organizations — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:03:23 GMT

Over 60 thought leaders and experts from Corrections and other fields were interviewed as a part of the

re: Shrinking Core and Expanding Periphery Key to High Performing Organizations (HPOs)

Lance Schuhmacher — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:53:29 GMT

I am reading Ken Miller's book We Don't Make Widgets - Overcoming the Myths That Keep Government from Radically Improving. He talks about changing how we do what we do by improving process. We change what we do by building "widgets" that better satisfy customers. Our "customers" vary depending on who is receiving the outcome. An outcome could be a service, the way we handle something, what a law or legislator wants us to produce, or it could be how many GED programs we have in a prison. It is by the customer using the widget we produce that we achieve our desired result. If we create a widget our customer doesn't like or can't use, we struggle to achieve our result.

What do you or others think of this?

re: Shrinking Core and Expanding Periphery Key to High Performing Organizations (HPOs)

Nancy Cebula — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:57:56 GMT

Vulnerability and risk seem to be key issues for Corrections organizations. It would be interesting to hear how different agencies deal with these issues. I am also curious to see if there are any patterns that might arise between the various sectors of Corrections, i.e. probation, jail, prison, parole, etc.

So my question is: How does your organization deal with vulnerability and risk?

re: Shrinking Core and Expanding Periphery Key to High Performing Organizations (HPOs)

Joshua Stengel — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:43:01 GMT

Joe, you make some good statements. Higher returns can require a higher level of risk .

What questions do you see being avoided or going unanswered these days?

re: Shrinking Core and Expanding Periphery Key to High Performing Organizations (HPOs)

Joe Brodnicki — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:15:15 GMT

Useful framework, though short on specifc governmental applications (they are there). I think the core of it is to find out what others want/need and get behind them to accomplish it and put your projects out there so others can get behind you in accomplishing this. This requires a good deal of vulnerability and risk. Gone are the days when we can supply answers without really knowing the questions.

re: What Would A High Performing Corrections Organization Look Like?

August — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:13:41 GMT

All this "Rentry" nonsense is about is getting more money from the taxpayers. Their "Evidence Based" programs are anything but evidence based. All it is is worthless "life Skills, forced 12-step religious conversion, never-ending group therapy, nasty prison modeled Half-way houses, rotten food back discards, rules, rule,s and more rules, and a dead-end job if they are lucky., and then back to prison because their system DOES NOT WORK!

re: What Would A High Performing Corrections Organization Look Like?

william salas correctional program specialist — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:53:48 GMT

i believe this article is very interesting. I work for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. At this moment we are experiencing million dollar budget cuts to the state and the ODRC as well. The public expects to know what is happening with their tax dollars, especially in hard economic times such as now. Probably one of the most important questions that administration is asking now is "does programing work?" by working we must be able to show that recidivism is decreasing....i believe that this article is an excellent starting point for departments to see if they are functioning at theie highest potential and are they giving the public what they truly want.