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Here are five ways the public sector can start thinking about incorporating artificial intelligence, automation and chatbots.
Are you just starting out with digital communications, moving paper bulletins to emails? Or have you been running paperless and automated end-to-end agenda management for years?
The future of government will almost certainly be on the cloud, and as it turns out for cybersecurity, that’s a very positive reality.
Governments should be looking to the private sector to help achieve their ideal digital futures. Public-private partnerships help governments get more from available resources to increase usability and flexibility online, facilitating better relationships with their citizens.
Natural tendencies aside, integrating data in pursuit of removing silos can actually cause more problems than solve. Here are three key issues that are introduced when integrating a lot of data into one data warehouse.
The kiss up, kick down manager is a person who lays on the flattery to endear themselves to their superiors, yet readily intimidates and undermines their subordinates.
The side-eye is a multitasker; it expresses annoyance to suspicion. Sometimes if you’re the on-looker, it can be side-splitting funny. Just not at work.
Misinterpreting female motives is a documented mistake that many (not all) men are prone to making. Recognizing this tendency can help them reinterpret such situations for more accurate perceptions. A little self-awareness can go along way in life and prevent me too moments.
Requirements like FedRAMP have greatly boosted consistency and security of government cloud, and they’ve laid a strong foundation for future migration.
A lot of people find it difficult to say, “I’m sorry.” However, women tend to overuse the phrase, especially in workplace communication. Here are a few ways to stop over-apologizing.
How do you communicate appreciation effectively when you manage large groups of employees?
When you think about threats to government cybersecurity, you might think about hackers clicking away at code in dark spaces, well outside of agency walls. While these external threats certainly exist, it’s also critical for agencies to confront insider threats.
The size, scale and scope of state and local governments can vary wildly. But what are the biggest challenges that unite these varied organizations?
In a recent interview with GovLoop, Rock Regan, Industry Marketing Director for the Public Sector at Kronos, explained why it’s important for agencies and their missions to ensure they’re engaging their own employees. Kronos provides digital workforce management solutions for government agencies at all levels
Even if you’re not a journalist on the Hill beat, you may very well find yourself in a situation where you just aren’t sure what’s considered “appropriate”. So how do you figure out what to wear? We suggest these three tips that can help you determine for yourself what’s best to wear at the office.
One thing you always seem to need more of is time. More minutes to get ready, more hours in the day, more days before the deadline. What steps can you take to get more time in your day?
How do we navigate blurred lines between taking it personally and professionally? The answer is to be human, stay engaged, take your work seriously, but don’t do it to the point where it becomes impossible to work through your feelings.
Staying ahead of the wave of digital transformation will require innovating thinking, the right technology investments and new ways of training and recruiting the future federal workforce. But through the right learning and talent platforms, federal government can continue to deliver.
There are numerous indicators that DevOps and DevOps security is a priority for federal leaders, but is this priority maturing into federal business opportunities that require actual implementation? Weigh in.
The Chief Information Officer of a federal agency must provide innovative solutions in a challenging budget environment. Hear what these federal CIOs have to say in terms of how they’re navigating.
Office friends can provide you with support, advice and a few laughs when the going gets tough. However, if you’re a lady in the workforce there are explicit benefits to befriending another woman in the office.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) recently partnered with the National Association of State Procurement Officers (NASPO) to create a State IT Procurement Negotiations roadmap. GovLoop sat down with Meredith Ward, Senior Policy Analyst at NASCIO, to hear what they learned from that process.
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