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Adam Jones discusses constraints and building organizational capacity under duress in this installment of The Business of Government.
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Adam Jones discusses constraints and building organizational capacity under duress in this installment of The Business of Government.
Original-source summaryOriginal on Weaver ↗The Business of Government
With Todd Hoffman & Aaron Howard
Emphasizing the critical role of enterprise performance management in today’s data-driven era, governments today are focused on the fundamentals and understand that their constituents are looking for results. Now is the time to align actions to the mission and begin looking at performance metrics that elevate the organization. The stakes couldn’t be higher with new…
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Emphasizing the critical role of enterprise performance management in today’s data-driven era, governments today are focused on the fundamentals and understand that their constituents are looking for results. Now is the time to align actions to the mission and begin looking at performance metrics that elevate the organization. The stakes couldn’t be higher with new…
Published articleTodd Hoffman · Guest / Aaron Howard · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗The Business of Government
With Alyssa Martin
Government does not measure profit and loss, but it is still a business. Government leaders deliver change, develop strategies, and adapt. Sharing her insights on the topic, Weaver National Strategy Leader Alyssa Martin, CPA, joined Business of Government host and State Government Practice Leader, Adam Jones. Martin has decades of public accounting experience and founded…
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Government does not measure profit and loss, but it is still a business. Government leaders deliver change, develop strategies, and adapt. Sharing her insights on the topic, Weaver National Strategy Leader Alyssa Martin, CPA, joined Business of Government host and State Government Practice Leader, Adam Jones. Martin has decades of public accounting experience and founded…
Published articleAlyssa Martin · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗The Business of Government
With Trip Hillman
Malicious cybercriminals see government entities as prime targets and many leaders are investing in the best protection against loss and interruption. In this edition of The Business of Government, our host, Adam Jones, is joined by Trip Hillman, Weaver’s Partner of IT Advisory Services to discuss the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape and the growing need for…
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Malicious cybercriminals see government entities as prime targets and many leaders are investing in the best protection against loss and interruption. In this edition of The Business of Government, our host, Adam Jones, is joined by Trip Hillman, Weaver’s Partner of IT Advisory Services to discuss the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape and the growing need for…
Published articleTrip Hillman · Guest
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Career & credits.
15 MarketScale publications and 3 public Weaver episodes matched to completed MarketScale Studio productions. Alternate audio/video renditions are grouped. Historical discussions retain their original publication context.
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A useful metric starts with why.
Adam Jones, Aaron Howard and Todd Hoffman on government performance
Adam’s conversation with Aaron Howard and Todd Hoffman asks why a government measures something and why it matters. They connect performance measures with the public mission and the ownership of working processes. The discussion looks beyond the organizational chart toward how services actually get delivered.
Discussion prompt
Name the outcome and the person responsible before choosing a measure.
Make the public mission part of management.
Alyssa Martin with Adam Jones on leadership in government
Guest Alyssa Martin discusses how government leaders combine public purpose with lessons from commercial organizations. In her conversation with Adam, she connects performance-based budgeting, accessible leadership and collaboration. Adam’s role is to bring those management choices into a practical discussion of public service.
Discussion prompt
How does the management approach help people deliver the mission?
Controls need clear responsibilities.
Brandon Tanous and Travis Casner with Adam Jones
Brandon Tanous and Travis Casner join Adam to discuss grant fraud and internal controls. They describe documented procedures, separation of duties and the use of analytics to identify unusual spending. Their conversation makes the grant lifecycle a shared operating responsibility, rather than an issue left until the final report.
Discussion prompt
Check who initiates, executes and approves each transaction.
Insurance belongs in a wider security plan.
Trip Hillman with Adam Jones on cyber insurance
Trip Hillman explains to Adam how cyber insurance fits within an organization’s approach to technology risk. The conversation covers increasingly detailed questionnaires and the importance of accurately representing security practices. It keeps coverage connected to the systems and processes that an organization actually operates.
Discussion prompt
Can the organization support its insurance responses with evidence of its actual practices?
A process change gives automation its purpose.
Morgan Page with Adam Jones on digital transformation
Morgan Page distinguishes the strategic aim of digital transformation from the tools used to carry it out. With Adam, he discusses automation as the tactical work of changing activities and handling information. The conversation starts with what an agency wants to improve before selecting the technology.
Discussion prompt
Describe the process improvement first, then identify where automation could help.
Funding needs a delivery plan.
Adam Jones and Todd Hoffman on infrastructure funding
Adam and Todd Hoffman discuss how agencies prepare for large infrastructure allocations. Their conversation connects priority projects, business cases, transparency and cooperation across departments. The historical funding context illustrates a durable management question: how to turn an available resource into a result for constituents.
Discussion prompt
Which departments share the problem, and what would a coordinated result look like?
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State Government Practice Leader
Weaver
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Adam Jones is Weaver’s State Government Practice Leader and host of The Business of Government. His background includes serving as Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the Texas Education Agency, followed by consulting on organizational governance, technology assessment and internal audit.
His conversations connect the public mission with the work of delivering it: managing grants, protecting systems, developing leaders and measuring results. He draws out the expertise of guests across assurance, technology and government operations, while his own contributions explore Texas’s economy and the constraints public leaders face. The catalog includes MarketScale publications and separately identified Weaver releases supported by completed MarketScale Studio production records. Historical discussions retain their original dates and context.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- 2003–2012
Texas Education Agency
Served as Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer before moving into consulting.
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15 MarketScale publications and 3 public Weaver episodes matched to completed MarketScale Studio productions. Alternate audio/video renditions are grouped. Historical discussions retain their original publication context.
Summaries identify whether they use published articles or transcripts. Series attribution is distinguished from an individually checked appearance.
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A week after PHP shipped emergency fixes for two critical flaws, the U.S. government has stopped treating exploitation as a possibility. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the pair known as PHP2Shell, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
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