NASCIO Awards

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2009 Awards: Data, Information and Knowledge Management

RECIPIENT:
Virginia - Virginia Performs: Virginia's Performance Leadership and Accountability System

Virginia Performs is a performance leadership and accountability system that encompasses an integrated array of state agency plans, objectives, performance measures and societal indicators. It forms the basis for strategic planning, performance-based budgeting and productivity improvement for Virginia’s state government.

To promote transparency and provide citizens with a means to track quality-of-life indicators and state government performance, Governor Timothy M. Kaine, as Chair of the Council on Virginia’s Future, launched the Virginia Performs website, the public face of the performance leadership and accountability system. Since its 2007 launch, the website has grown in scope, function and capability. Today, it is a vital component of executive management, significantly enhancing transparency while serving as a catalyst for better strategic thinking and policy, enterprise solutions, performance-driven decision-making and improved outcomes.

The Virginia Performs website aggregates data from multiple national and state sources and displays the data in easy-to-use text, graph and map formats. Approximately 84 state agencies enter data directly into the website to report progress on standardized performance measures. Now citizens and elected leaders can reference one source to see how Virginia - on state, regional and local levels - is doing on a variety of measures from high school graduation to crime and land preservation. They can also see how state agencies are making progress on performance measures directly linked to quality-of-life indicators.

Virginia was among the first states to develop and sustain a comprehensive approach to the integration of societal level indicators and state agency performance measures. The Virginia Performs website identifies areas in which Virginia is doing well and those that need improvement, which is a particular benefit for policy makers. It is improving management and service delivery outcomes, enhancing the information needed for budget development and increasing transparency of state government operations.

"In these tough economic times, it is more important than ever that we adopt results-oriented, outcome-based strategies for managing state government. By ensuring easy online access to performance data, Virginia Performs allows us to focus on future goals and outcomes while keeping our government transparent and effective in the process."
The Honorable Timothy M. Kaine, Governor of Virginia and Chair of the Council on Virginia’s Future

FINALISTS:
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New York
NYS Enhanced Drivers License - A Smart Way To Travel

Texas
Revenue and Sales Reporting (RASR) Business Intelligence Platform

OTHER NOMINATIONS:
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Colorado
AFCARS Tracking Project

District of Columbia
Washington, DC Citywide Data Warehouse

Illinois
eGrants - Automating and Creating a Grants Management System

Kansas
Managing Knowledge through Business Interfaces and Dynamic Reporting

Kentucky
Kentucky State Police Barcoded Evidence Analysis and Tracking (BEAST)

Michigan
Achieving Breakthrough Data Transformation Through a Shared Solution

North Carolina
Unclaimed Property Electronic Document Management and Workflow System

Nevada
Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles Taking the Thruway to Virtualization