APQC Provides Insight on the Stimulus Plan

In April 2009, APQC conducted a survey to understand the top-of-mind issues facing our government colleagues—federal, state and military. APQC wanted to know how the new economic realities, a new administration, the unprecedented stimulus package, a stern focus on transparency and accountability, and the new federal budget were affecting government agencies and how they were responding.

1 Stimulus 2009 2 Using Web 2.0 3 Power of People

Common Issues and Needs

APQC found remarkable commonality among the top-of-mind issues for our government members:

Readiness to administer Stimulus funding,
Seizing the benefits of a Web 2.0 environment,
Find, developing, and retaining talent, and
Benchmarking and learning from best practices

Survey Findings

Each of the four common issues and needs have a series of key findings gleaned from the survey and APQC's experiences over the last three decades.Click on the links above to explore each area. As a long-standing not-for-profit resource for best practices and process improvement to government , it is APQC’s objective to assist government agencies at all levels to effectively and efficiently serve their on-going missions and new requirements.

What's Next?

Well over 50% of respondents will be tasked to deal with the Stimulus dollars. Most are Federal agencies. Most had not yet developed detailed plans or measures to measure accountability and transparency—both for an agency’s budget and with the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act dollars (ARRA). Agencies were not ready to meet the unprecedented need to move money to the states, but they are moving quickly.