Italy. Britain. France. The United States. Greece. Spain. Ireland. A few short years ago, that would have been a roll call of some of the hottest economies on the planet – now without exception all are facing tough questions about the future of government services and what entitlements the government can continue to provide to citizens.

In this Process Perspectives podcast, two former advisors to Vice President Al Gore’s Partnership for Reinventing Government, discuss the complexities of the challenges that governments are facing - from changing demographics to new and unpredictable threats like climate change - and the difficulties of changing government.

Guests in this Process Perspectives podcast:

John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government, served for eight years as deputy director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, also worked at the Government Accountability Office where he played a key role in the development and passage of the Government Performance and Results Act.

Robert Knisely is a lecturer at John Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies and he also served as deputy director of Vice President Al Gore's Reinventing Government project and has 3 decades of experience across the Executive Branch of the Federal government.

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