Performance & Innovation

About us

The City's Performance & Innovation Coordinator is focused on helping the City deliver efficient and first-rate services and promoting exceptional quality of life for its residents through the use of data driven decisions. The Performance & Innovation Coordinator works to enable City departments and City government as a whole to measure, track, and report on the progress of major goals and initiatives and utilize data and evidence to make policy and program decisions. Performance Management systems and strategies are designed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of services to city residents and services that support departments and operations.

Vision

The City envisions a collaborative and innovative city government working in conjunction with our residents to create and sustain a community where everyone thrives.

Mission

The Performance & Innovation Coordinator partners with city departments to strengthen strategic goals, identify meaningful indicators that can demonstrate service trends and improvements, build capacity to collect and analyze data, and design user-friendly tools to transparently communicate performance metrics and City data internally and to the public.

Performance & Innovation focuses on the following areas:

Creating documentation for data standards
Reviewing and streamlining performance measures
Developing, updating, or refining clear goals, measures, and data collection strategies
Data analyses
Developing training for building the data literacy of City staff and residents
Advancing the City’s Open Data and performance culture
Providing framework for data driven decisions
Fostering a culture of innovation
Leading process improvements

Initiatives

The Performance & Innovation Coordinator hosts the City's Annual Open Data Day event, which include hands on learning opportunities for community members and those interested in advancing the Open Data work of the City.

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For More Information

Little Rock City Hall
500 W Markham Street, Suite 203
Little Rock, AR 72201
(501) 371-4644