Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 259,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
Leadership for a Networked World
The mission of Leadership for a Networked World is to help leaders activate innovations and realize transformations that generate capacity and sustainable public value.
Founded in 1987 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University by Dr. Jerry Mechling, LNW is now a think-tank that works with Harvard and academic institutions globally to provide uniquely powerful leadership summits, transformation programs, and advisory services. Since 1987, LNW (E-government Executive Education - “3E,” prior to 2005) has conducted more than 200 learning events and gathered more than 12,000 alumni globally.
Currently, LNW initiatives are focused on the global “capacity challenge:” Structural deficits, demographic changes and citizen demands are rapidly changing the operating environment and competitive landscape of government, pressuring ability to provide public value.
To succeed in this new era, leaders must transform organizational capacity to deliver current services, create new solutions, increase transparency and equity, and – most importantly - help people, families and communities realize their full potential.
Transformations of this magnitude require leaders to envision, launch and grow innovations in both their organizational model and technology model. Increasingly, these innovations are moving across traditional organizational boundaries – departments, jurisdictions, branches of government and sectors of society – and represent the next wave of the many opportunities and challenges opened by information and communication technologies and network-enabled organizational models. To ensure success, leaders have to make difficult decisions and choices about the level of reform and the pace of adaptation, and LNW helps guide the journey. For more information visit www.lnwprogram.org
APHSA
APHSA is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization representing appointed state and local health and human service agency commissioners. APHSA was founded in 1930 as the American Public Welfare Association and changed its name to APHSA in 1997. APHSA is the only association of the nation's top government human service executives from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories—and their key state program managers, plus hundreds of county-level directors of human services throughout the nation—for the exchange of knowledge, data, best practices, policy review and development, networking and advocacy. APHSA houses nine affiliate organizations, whose members are the administrators which operate human service agency divisions or departments in the states and for the most part report to a state commissioner. The affiliates cover a variety of program specializations such as child welfare and income assistance programs as well as support functions such as program evaluation and staff training.
APHSA is committed to carrying out our work through strong connections and partnerships among the many areas of government and the broader community that affect the well-being of our citizens. For more information visit www.aphsa.org