Posts Tagged: DorobekINSIDER

No more yellow tape — Did Twitter kill emergency management?

“Emergency management is dead. Well, at least as most people know it. It’s time for another revolution in the professional field of emergency management that embraces the impact, expectation, challenges, and potential benefits of embracing the integration of social expectations into the general public. This is not the first time the profession of emergency managementRead… Read more »

Pentagon is developing insect like sensors — DorobekINSIDER’s 7 stories you need to know

The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Tuesday the 7th of August, 2012 HP Enterprise Services is close to closing a $2.1 billion dollar Navy contract to continue operating the Navy and Marine Corps Intranet. GovConWire reports, HP owns and controls most of the infrastructure and software for running the NMCI after obtaining theRead… Read more »

Making telework work at PTO and why the transition to Networx’s has been a BIG challenge

On today’s program Telework — many organizations talk about it. One has done it — and in a big way. It’s the Patent and Trademark Office. And an amazing statistic for you — more than 8,000 people at PTO are eligible to telework. Of those, more than 80 percent of them actually do it. We’reRead… Read more »

Networx — why the transition has been an uphill climb

Networx — it is the big federal telecommunications contract. Of course, the federal government spends big bucks on telecommunications services. In fiscal 2007, agencies spent some $960 million on telecom services, according to the Government Accountability Office and that was 2007. Back in 2007, GSA awarded a new contract for federal telecommunications services — Networx,Read… Read more »

The Patent and Trademark Office TELEWORK’S — to the tune of 80% — how did they do it?

Telework — let’s be honest, it feels like we have been talking about it for years and it feels like scant progress is made each year. That may be true for many organizations, but for the Patent and Trademark Office, they are widely recognized as the telework leader across government. At PTO, more than 8,000Read… Read more »

The STOCK Act get delayed — The DorobekINSIDER’s 7 Stories You need to Know

The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Monday the 6th of August, 2012 Senior executives and political appointees get a temporary reprieve from the STOCK Act. Federal News Radio says Congress has delayed by a month parts of the new law aimed at preventing high level federal officials from using official knowledge for stockRead… Read more »

Going for Gold — How Olympians can teach us about leadership and your weekend reads!

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,Read… Read more »

OPM goes the distance on innovation find out how they did it — here’s a hint the Luma Institute

On today’s program The Office of Personnel Management has made great strides with innovation — that according to feds themselves. How did they do it? You hear from OPM’s Matt Collier. He spoke at GovLoop’s Next Generation of Government Training Summit, and you’ll hear from him. Click here for the full recap. And we’ll hearRead… Read more »

OPM rises in the Innovation Index — find out how they did it

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. (Listen to our interview with Tom Fox about the Innovation Index here.) But how did they do it? Matt CollierRead… Read more »

What will actually be cut in sequestration? The White House says they can’t answer that — DorobekINSIDER

The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Thursday the 2nd of August, 2012 While there may be a budget deal for at least part of fiscal 2014, there is still a lot of wrangling around sequestration. Congress and the administration continued to square off those automatic spending cuts. Members of the House Armed ServiceRead… Read more »