All Blog Posts Tagged 'nextgen' (45)

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• It's hard to peer into a crystal ball and predict what will be the top trends for government technology. But that's exactly what the experts at IDC Insights has done. Click here for the full recap.…

First let's start out with a definition -- what is a heretic?

"From my point of view, a heretic is someone that has a point of view about an organization and the work that is being…

Welcome to GovLoop InsightsIssue of the Week with Chris Dorobek, where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead. And, as always, we focus on six words: helping you do…

The Office of Personnel Management has been making some real progress in terms on innovation.

In fact they are the only agency to rise up the ranks of the Partnership for Public Service's Innovation Index.

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As the end of the conference drew near, I was feeling a little nervous about holding myself accountable for changing my lessons learned into actions. You know that self-doubt that creeps in and makes you think “I can’t change the way this huge government works.” Well, thankfully I got a boost of morale from all three speakers at the NextGen closing session.

SPEAKER #1: JOE JORDAN

Joe Jordan, the administrator for…

The final session of Day Two of Next Generation of Government featured:

• “Collaborating for Results:” Joe Jordan, Administrator, Federal Procurement Policy…

Thanks again to everyone who attended our session at NextGen, Maximizing Your Early Years: From NextGen to SES. It was a packed room of 200+ aspiring government leaders! Here is a brief summary for those who could not attend, along with the mentioned training and development resources to continue your NextGen journey throughout the year.…

On today’s program

• Are you a rebel in your workplace? Can you be? And what does that mean? We’ll hear from a former senior executive at the CIA -- who professes being a rebel in the workplace. We’ll hear what that means... and how you can be a rebel. Click here for the full…

Thanks again to everyone who attended my session at NextGen, "Presentation design for the user experience". As promised, I've to a list of resources for you to help sharpen your skills as a student of the discipline:

The Presentation itself can be found…

”Corporate Rebel: How to be an Intrapraneur within Government”

Carmen Medina, Former CIA Director of Intelligence, author…

The American Clean Skies foundation is out with their new plan that aims to reduce the government’s consumption of oil – and the fiscal and environmental costs that come with it – by requiring federal agencies to apply to third-­‐party transportation providers the same kind of alternative fuel targets,…

This post comes from top tweets made during the NextGen breakout session "Overview and In depth Conversations: Networking from the Light Side of the Force," a Star Wars themed talk on networking by Andrew Foxwell and Dave Uejio. The top tweeters were…

The panel on supervisory training featured Winona H. Varnon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Management within the Department of Education, as well as David M. Wulf, Deputy Director of the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division within the Office of Infrastructure Protection at the Department of…

All our photos from NextGen12 can be seen here. Some of the best are below, taken by Govlooper Kanika Tolver:

Steve Ressler emceed many of the sessions, rocking the "Field Notebook"…

Today’s lunch session featured, Matt Mullenweg, Founder, WordPress & Successful Young Entrepreneur and Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement, White House. Matt kicked of the session by stating, “Do not listen when people say this…

The Mongols are an extremely violent motorcycle gang in Los Angeles organized over 30 years ago. John Torres, Deputy Assistant Director, Headquarters, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, discussed leadership lessons learned from two undercover cases involving the gang. In 2001, Billy Queen, an AFT agent infiltrated the Mongols successfully for the first time in history, but not without several hiccups along the way. Admittedly, the AFT was unprepared for the challenges they…

For the next generation of government leaders, Nick Charney has several strategies to give your writing edge. And why should you care? According to him, “The ability to affectively communicate information is what puts you above everyone else.” With left-brain, creative skills of increasing importance in our economy, what…

Making decisions is never easy -- and some might argue that it is even more challenging today because things change SO quickly. How do you make the best decisions?

That is one of the issues we’ll be talking about later this month at the…

The first panel for day two of the Next Generation of Government was called, How to Drive Big Change in Government. The session abstract reads, “We all want to make a big impact on hard problems but big change in government is tough. In this session, we will talk to senior leaders about how to drive big change in government with real world examples how they’ve navigate successful outcomes with limited budgets, changing scope, and…