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OPI Innovator Among 10 Award Recipients Honored at Ceremony in Pittsburgh on November 16th

Blayney Among 10 Award Recipients Honored at Ceremony in Pittsburgh on November 16th

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…

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…

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…

On Making the Days Count: Ali and Ali’s Louisville

I don’t think there could be a much more historic time to happen to be in Louisville than this past week. The night my first week at OPI2 ended, I learned that Muhammad Ali had died. Throughout that first week — my first week in Louisville —…

#InternTakeover Begins

Dear Readers of the OPI2 Blog,

This summer you’re in for a treat as the Louisville Office of Performance Improvement and Innovation (OPI2) has been inundated with four summer interns. Three of us are Yale College students (Hedy, Timur, me), here in Louisville as…

VAP in the City

Louisville’s I-Team has an audacious goal to reduce vacancy within a targeted area by 50 percent — a total of 55 properties.