Network Performance Project

Purpose & Approach:

The Network Performance Project brings together prominent academic thinkers in the field of public administration to analyze issues of public governance, network forms of government, and third-party government.  Funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Network Performance Project is a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Project Participants:

Project Director:
Donald F. Kettl - Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania

Academic Partners:
G. Edward DeSeve - Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania
John Donahue - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
William Eggers - Deloitte Research
Stephen Goldsmith - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Anne Khademian - Center for Public Administration & Policy, Virginia Tech University
Mark H. Moore - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
H. Brinton Milward - Eller College of Management, University of Arizona
Paul Posner - Public and International Affairs, George Mason University
Barry Rabe - Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Results & Publications:

The Network Performance Project has conducted a series of forums with the academic partners and also network practitioners from across the United States.  These forums have examined issues such as:

- Port Security & Network Building by the US Coast Guard
- The US Intelligence Community under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
- The Chesapeake Bay Project & Conservation
- The Boston Greenway Development Project

The project uses these forums to develop intellectual capital for a forthcoming book on government network performance and the kind of practices that lead to high-performance networks.The project also conducted an extensive syllabus development competition for graduate-level courses in network management and performance. This competition provided development grants of $10,000 to winning entries and $5000 to runners-up.

Events
Syllabus Competition
Publications
Network Links

For more information, contact Catherine Lamb, Project Manager, at catlamb@sas.upenn.edu.