IBM Center for The Business of Government just published a report how the research community can help public managers to achieve their goals. Among the chapters in the report is a piece that I wrote about critical research questions for supporting the open government initiative.

The report emerged from an event hosted by the Center in November 2009 to examine the Obama Administration’s themes for a high-performing government and to frame a public management research agenda.

Participants included nearly 50 of the nation’s top public management researchers, scholars, and distinguished practitioners. The forum was an effort to help bridge the gap between research and practice, and to collectively develop a research agenda that would help government executives move things forward.

The forum was organized around key management priorities reflected in the Obama Administration’s early months in office. To inform participants in the forum, the IBM Center invited four scholars to each prepare a discussion paper providing context and issues related to one of these priorities. These draft papers were shared in advance with participants and they formed the foundation for the conversations during the forum. In addition, participants helped develop a series of research questions they thought would be useful to both researchers and practitioners over the next few years.

Check out the report.