Implementation

Systems for Success: Rewiring Agencies to Deliver at Speed and Scale

Led by: Stephanie Pollack

This session explores how public agencies can move beyond pilot projects and siloed initiatives to build organizational systems that consistently deliver results, whether the desired result is implementation of a policy, delivering a benefit program or executing on a capital project. This session focuses on building out systems – project management organizations, governance hierarchies, cross-functional teams – that can quickly and consistently identify impediments and get past them, creating an agency that can deliver initial results and then scale them expeditiously.  You will examine how high-performing government agencies can prove their effectiveness using existing resources by establishing systems and processes that rewire the organization to prioritize key initiatives, deliver faster, learn continuously, scale what works and move away from what does not. Designed for mid- and senior-level public professionals looking for practical insights and tools that will not only help deliver specific results but rewire their organizations to be able to consistently and expeditiously move from intention to impact.

 

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify types of organizational barriers that slow execution and prevent effective delivery in public agencies.

  2. Create organizational systems that will initially deliver results on specific priorities but over time change both the culture and capacity of the agency to deliver at speed and scale.

  3. Evaluate how leadership, data, delivery, governance and accountability systems can be redesigned to support faster delivery and learning and measurable, sustained results.

 

Stephanie Pollack

Senior Fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative

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Format: online

Date & Time: January 29, 2026, 2:00 PM ET

Duration: 60 minutes

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