This study suggests that a systematic state manager training program, the Arkansas Certified Government Manager program, does stimulate administrative innovation. It is found from analysis of project plans submitted by the trainee managers, the capstone exercise of the training program, that many of them deal with new ideas, that a substantial number of such projects are developed as a result of participating in the ACGM training, and that generally, the exercise promotes additional state agency analysis, discussion and action of the issue or problem addressed by the training manager in his project plan.
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