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Priority 05

Turn implementation knowledge into field capacity

Make practical experience, evidence, decisions, and reusable artifacts easier to find, trust, adapt, and improve.

This priority advances
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The case

A lesson builds capacity when someone else can use it.

Government teams have already learned a great deal about making services work. Too often, that knowledge leaves with a person, stays inside a contract, or becomes a case study that explains the success but not the decisions that made it possible. The next team still has to reconstruct the method, navigate the same constraints, and learn the same lessons.

The field already has useful libraries, communities of practice, training programs, and research institutions. The priority is to make those assets more usable and connected, not to create another destination by default. Practical artifacts need context, maintenance, and access to people who can help another team adapt them.

What the agenda asks

Capture the work. Support reuse. Learn from adoption.

  1. 01

    Make reusable evidence a normal delivery output

    Capture process maps, evaluation methods, contract language, code, decision records, and lessons from failure as work proceeds. Explain the conditions, costs, and constraints behind an example, protect sensitive information, and name an owner who can keep it useful.

  2. 02

    Connect discovery to hands-on adoption

    Build on existing libraries and practitioner networks. Fund peer exchange, coaching, and time for public servants to adapt a relevant artifact to a live problem. Give government practitioners a central role in choosing what gets documented and taught.

  3. 03

    Learn whether the knowledge actually travels

    Track reuse and the changes it produces, not just downloads or attendance. Ask adopting teams what they had to change, where the guidance failed, and what results followed; feed those lessons back into the shared resource and retire stale material.

Across the field

Work already in motion

This is a curated view of active work that advances the priority, not a claim that every organization shown has endorsed the full Agenda.

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Beeck Center

Operating

Connecting practical resources with peers who have done the work

Beeck’s Digital Government Network connects government practitioners through communities of practice and the Digital Government Hub. Its new Product Commons pilot goes further: a July 2026 convening helped Maryland learn from other states’ experience buying and implementing correctional electronic health records.

An established network and library, with a new peer-learning pilot tied to an actual procurement decision

WorkforcePurpose-fit digital infrastructureIncentives for outcomes

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Beeck: Digital Government Network Beeck: Product Commons and correctional EHRs Digital Government Hub
02
Civic Futures

Operating

Making government AI experience easier to find and compare

Center for Civic Futures has launched an AI Knowledge Hub with state use cases and executive orders. Most initial cases came directly from government teams; entries describe the problem, the agency, what was built, and outcomes or code where available. It sits alongside the Center’s peer-learning work with public leaders.

Launched in 2026 with 115 government AI use cases

WorkforcePurpose-fit digital infrastructure

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Center for Civic Futures: AI Knowledge Hub launch Explore the AI Knowledge Hub
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InnovateUS Civic Futures

Operating

Teaching responsible AI through human-services practice

InnovateUS and Center for Civic Futures developed a six-session series on AI in human services, bringing practitioners into discussions of benefits delivery, case management, service design, and accountability. The Spring 2026 recordings make the learning available beyond the original participants.

Six recorded sessions bringing human-services practice into AI learning

WorkforceRight-sized procedure

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InnovateUS: AI and Human Services recorded series
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Partners for Public Good

Operating and scaling

Helping procurement practice travel between governments

Partners for Public Good’s Procurement Excellence Network combines a practitioner community with templates, process maps, evaluation tools, and free coaching. It gives government teams both artifacts to adapt and experienced peers to help work through live procurement challenges.

A community of more than 2,500 practitioners, with tools and coaching alongside peer exchange

WorkforceIncentives for outcomes

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Partners for Public Good: Procurement Excellence Network
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IBM Center

Research and policy development

Translating public-management research into leadership practice

The IBM Center for The Business of Government’s research on agile government examines the leadership and organizational conditions behind adaptive teams. Its June 2026 report by Ines Mergel offers public managers practical ways to support cross-functional work, learning, and early correction of problems.

A June 2026 applied leadership report within an ongoing agile-government research program

WorkforceIncentives for outcomes

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IBM Center: Agile and Adaptive Leadership in the Public Sector

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