MD Governor O'Malley on CitiStat and StateStat

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's presentation on CitiStat and StateStat to the Management Performance conference last week in Austin is available on YouTube. Governing.com's 13th Floor blog features the embedded video today in an entry on the non-partisan aspects of the "stat" approach to managing government (Gov. O'Malley's "Omni-partisan" Approach).

The video is also worth watching for its glimpses of geospatial info in action as part of the "stat" approach. I was looking for Our Kenny in the shots of people gathered around stat-screens in conference rooms, but had no luck.

Words to the Wise?

Governing.com's 13th Floor blog is reporting from Austin, Texas, and the Managing Performance Conference. LAPD Chief Bill Bratton spoke today and impressed the 13th Floor folks with his thesis: Measure What Matters.

"In government, we had a tendency to measure everything and drive everyone crazy with data, rather than measuring what matters," he said.

Chief Bratton was sharing stories about his success with CompStat, a geospatially-enabled management tool that he developed in New York City and has brought to Los Angeles. This is an approach that has started to be adopted by other cities and now, in the case of Maryland, by states.