Government Agency

18 articles
Mission Profit Insight
20 min read · April 27, 2026

Health Profit: How Government Agencies Can Measure and Improve Population Health Outcomes

ABSTRACT Population health is the most complex, most consequential, and most underperformed domain of government mission. The United States spends…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Mission Profit Insight
21 min read · April 27, 2026

Environmental Profit: How Government Agencies Can Measure Sustainability and Climate Resilience

ABSTRACT Government is simultaneously the nation’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, its largest landowner, its primary environmental regulator, and the…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Mission Profit Insight
23 min read · April 27, 2026

Workforce Profit: Measuring and Improving Employee Experience, Capability, and Retention in Government

ABSTRACT Government cannot deliver its mission without the workforce to execute it. Yet the federal government’s most recent Federal Employee…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Mission Profit Insight
23 min read · April 27, 2026

Financial Stewardship Profit: Beyond Budget Compliance to Strategic Resource Management

ABSTRACT Financial stewardship is the oldest and most fundamental accountability obligation in government: the responsible management of public resources entrusted…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Mission Profit Insight
23 min read · April 27, 2026

Safety and Justice Profit: Measuring What Actually Makes Communities Safe

ABSTRACT Public safety is among the most fundamental obligations of government and among the most persistently mismanaged. The conventional measurement…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Mission Profit Insight
25 min read · April 27, 2026

Infrastructure Profit: Measuring the Return on Government Capital Investment

ABSTRACT Infrastructure is the physical foundation on which every other government mission is built. The water pipes that deliver safe…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Mission Profit Insight
25 min read · April 27, 2026

Innovation Profit: How Government Agencies Can Systematically Create and Measure Public Value from New Approaches

ABSTRACT Government innovation is simultaneously among the most important and most mismanaged activities in public administration. The promise is enormous:…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Mission Profit Insight
27 min read · April 27, 2026

Trust Profit: Measuring and Building the Public Confidence That Makes Government Effective

ABSTRACT Public trust is the most fundamental input to government effectiveness. Without trust, voluntary compliance declines and enforcement costs rise.…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald
Government Agency
22 min read · April 27, 2026

The Integrated Mission Profit Framework: Connecting Every Dimension of Government Performance to Democratic Accountability

ABSTRACT — SERIES SYNTHESIS This series began with a provocation: that government knows how to measure compliance but not performance;…

Bastin Gerald Bastin Gerald