Performance budgeting has been a mantra of government reformers at least since the Hoover Commission in 1949. But implementation has been sporadic. Why is something that seems sensible so hard to do?

LOWELL — City Manager Bernie Lynch is transforming the city’s annual budget document into a performance-based format, one that he says is more user-friendly for the administration, City Council and ...

“Performance-based budgeting,” buzzwords for states making spending decisions based on specific benchmarks, gained traction in the 1990s, then fell out of favor during the budget-cutting era of the ...

A new guide by an independent management consultant walks agencies through concrete examples of how they can do a better job of connecting their budgets to both daily activities and broader ...

The global economic crisis of 2008 underlined the urgent need for more transparency and accountability in the way public money was spent and for tighter oversight of public finances. Meeting this need ...

Lewis Carroll once said "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Global oil and gas companies are becoming more and more complex in their operations and the projects are ...

John Aylott is the Founder and Strategic Director at Fourleaf, a specialist sustainable design agency working primarily in the Energy, Technology and Environment sectors. As someone who is passionate ...