States have varying approaches to boosting government efficiency. Route 50 turned to the Ford School's Don Moynihan to analyze Pennsylvania's method of increasing efficiency after they recognized their state's processing systems fell behind other state governments. "In many respects, the Pennsylvania project was sort of an anti-DOGE approach to government,” Moynihan said. “They worked quickly, but … they took the time to understand the processes that they were changing and then built something better based on that consultation.” Moynihan concluded that increasing government efficiency relies on “investing in capacity, talking to public service workers, being a little humble about what you know and what you don’t know, as well as having genuine leadership commitment to make those services work better.”
