OPI2 Introduces Executive Fellows Leadership Development Program

When Mayor Fischer created the Office of Performance Improvement in 2012, he introduced his concept of the job. According to this concept, each Metro employee has three parts to their job: daily work, continuous…

Fear and Loathing at the GPI Summit: An Intern’s Journey

by Timur Guler

6:30 AM. Tuesday. The Day Before The Summit Begins

I haven’t gotten up this early since high school. Why did I stay up till 1:30…

Using #CivicTech to help with fires in Vacant and Abandoned Properties

As part of our participation in the Living Cities’ Accelerator program, the Office of Performance Improvement and Innovation (OPI2) brought together a cross-functional team that used a data-driven approach to…

Fear and Loathing on Lunch Break: Let the Interns Eat Cake

Welp. It’s 3:30 on a Friday and there’s no way Intern Timur is about to skim through another 70 page article on best practices in running an outdoor education program. It’s actually a really exciting project where I’m working…

Taking on the Digital Divide in Louisville

Today, more and more of the world is moving online, and in the process, more and more people are being left behind. Full societal participation increasingly depends on the ability to access and effectively use the internet — from applying to a job at a…

A Summer of #InternTakeover, in Retrospect

There are a lot of impressive parts of the Office of Performance Improvement and Innovation, and a lot of them are clear to outsiders. But what’s probably not so clear to outsiders is how clearly and how strongly the tenets of efficiency, improvement, and…

Building the foundation for Smart Traffic Management in Louisville

Louisville Metro is an expansive area that covers 380 square miles. More importantly to the Public Works Traffic department, drivers in Louisville travel over 500,000 miles per day on our local roads (that is over…

Louisville hires first data officer to further advance data-driven decision-making efforts

Mayor Greg Fischer announced today the hiring of the city’s first data officer, who will elevate efforts to use and analyze data to improve government performance and…

Louisville opening LouieLab for collaborative civic innovation & performance improvement

Mayor Greg Fischer has announced plans for the LouieLab — a civic innovation hub for public-private collaboration, and the new offices for the city’s Office of Performance…

In Louisville, City Accelerator efforts help target fire prevention education to at-risk citizens

In 2014, the city of Louisville was selected to participate in the first cohort of the Living Cities’ City Accelerator program, an initiative that works to advance…