Then it has to store or save the lessons for current and future use. First, an agency collects information, then it analyzes it, then it goes through a process to validate any lessons that it feels it has acquired through the collecting and analyzing of the data.
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Yvonne Jones We’ve done quite a bit of research in this area, and we defined a lessons learned exercise as a systematic set of steps for agencies to learn from an event and decide when and how to use that information to change their behavior. There’s actually an eight-step lessons learned process that GAO has identified. I didn’t realize after using that expression a hundred million times myself and hearing it a billion time. Tom Temin And so the idea of lessons learned, I want to start there. In an exclusive Federal News Network survey, we ask feds about their agencies’ efforts to turn data into actionable intelligence that can lead to better services. Insight by Maximus: Having data at your fingertips only matters if it’s the right data at the right moment. It’s a wonder they don’t just make it all up. Tom Temin The dominant impression I get from the report is that, really the Census Bureau pulled off a minor miracle to get this count done fairly on time, given COVID and way under budget.
For more on that, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Yvonne Jones, GAO’s director of Strategic Issues. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the Census Bureau could tighten up its internal feedback loop even more. For one thing, it learned how to lower costs through employee productivity, so 2020 came in nearly $2 billion under budget. The Census Bureau is already applying lessons learned from the 2020 decennial count in preparing for 2030 and even 2040. For more on that, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Yvonne Jones, GAO’s director.
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