Considerations When Making the Jump to Cloud
This e-book shares the myths and misconceptions agencies need to know before committing to a cloud resource.
The Future Is Cloud: Which Model Is Right for You?
This guide breaks down the basics of cloud and how its use can benefit your agency.
How Cyber Insurance and Strategies Work Together
This playbook explains how agencies can create a robust cybersecurity strategy.
Four Simple Techniques to Manage Constant Vendor Meeting Requests
Meeting with government contractors outside the typical request for proposal (RFP) process can be helpful — but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by vendor meeting requests. Here’s how to identify who you should (and should not) engage.
Unlocking the Power of Strategic Planning, and Plans, for Public Managers (Part 2) – Maintaining Discipline
A well-developed and deployed strategic plan can maintain an agency’s focus, push back on emergent priorities, enhance talent development and increase employee accountability.
Scale Up Your Agency’s Success
This report explores how a pay-as-you-go model can save your agency money, while enhancing modernization and efficiency.
A Look at AI-Enhanced Cybersecurity
This playbook details the benefits of artificial intelligence and its practical uses for cybersecurity.
How to Recognize and Reward Your Employees
This online networking event discussed how to reward your employees thoughtfully for a job well done.
Data, Data Everywhere, but Not a Byte to Eat
Data drives decisions — but how to harness its growing volume, speed, and variety so it can provide that actionable insight? Intelligent data management.
Leading through Crisis: 3 Ways the Pandemic Has Transformed Our Needs in Leadership
The pandemic has changed the way we work and created both challenges and opportunities for government leaders. Greater resilience, open and transparent communication, and new approaches are more critical than ever before.
Find the Right Path to Digital Transformation
Many agencies undertaking transformation initiatives struggle with common problems — surprise costs and compliance and security issues, for instance — but the solutions are agency-specific.
Networking With Ease
We are back into full blown networking and I don’t know about you, but I was having a hard time getting into the swing of in-person networking. After a few missteps, I’m back on track and sharing a few tips.
For North Dakota, the Pandemic Kickstarted a Transition to Digital Work
When governments nationwide had to switch to remote work nearly overnight, North Dakota’s technology office met the challenge of supporting and equipping 8,000 state employees who were suddenly working at home. Here’s what they learned.
5 Success Skills for New Hires
When an agency hires you, it wants you to succeed. That’s why agencies have employee manuals, organization charts and onboarding processes. But new hires need to do some of the legwork, too.
Make Your Job Meaningful
A government career offers many opportunities to find work that matters. But although you’re working for the public good, you also need to treat your career as a career — and treat yourself as a professional.
How One State Advances Cyber Protection
The everyday functions of government — and the services that agencies provide constituents — depend on strong cybersecurity protections. One state’s plan for disaster recovery helped it respond effectively to 23 simultaneous ransomware attacks. But the state has more in mind than that.
How to Take Some of the Hard Work out of Cloud Security
Configuration management is critical to cloud security because many products come with default settings that do not provide adequate security.
In Chicago, Collaboration Makes Early Childcare Better
Agencies often lack reliable, real-time data that can help them solve critical problems. In Chicago, officials used the cloud to bring early childhood care to underserved demographics.
Long-Timers’ Advice for New Government Hires
When you’re a newbie, the wisdom of long-timers can lift the veil on the mysteries of life as a public servant. According to our experts, the most important thing in starting your government job is to embrace the complex and varied environment you’ve entered and explore it.
Head off Hybrid Burnout
Many people are just trying to “get through” remote or hybrid work, hoping that the past will reappear. It won’t, a government expert told GovLoop recently, but there are ways to adjust to hybrid work’s peculiarities.