By BobGourley Friends at Cloudera are lead sponsors and coordinators of a new Big Data Forum focused on Apache Hadoop. The first, which will be held 30 January 2013 in Columbia Maryland, will be focused on lessons learned of use to the national security community. This is primarily for practitioners and leaders fielding real workingRead… Read more »
By BobGourley This special report provides insights from a our reporting over the last 12 months, including summaries of our Weekly Analytical Tools Newsletter. Be sure to sign up for this report by visiting http://ctovision.com/newsletter-subscriptions/ As a writing team we have close ties to the analytical missions of the national security space (our publisher, BobRead… Read more »
By BobGourley Over the last three years CTOvision has grown to become one of the most widely read outlets in the federal IT space, earning recognition by Forbes as one of the top 20 most influential on the topic of Big Data and recognition by FedTechMagazine as one of the top 50 “Must Read” federalRead… Read more »
“Smile, you’re on Candid Camera.” It’s a phrase we all know – and I’ll bet more than one of us heard it over the holidays when someone snapped a pic or snagged a video of a special moment. Modern-day iterations of the popular television show include “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment”, Ashton Kutcher’s “Punk’d” and JohnRead… Read more »
What were the top blogs and discussions on GovLoop in 2012? When I first set out to answer this question, I thought I’d get a pretty clear answer…but what emerged was less a set of individual blog posts and more a series of themes that captured the most attention or spurred the best conversations overRead… Read more »
By BobGourley We have previously written about the importance of discipline in terms of art like Big Data. There are plenty of indications that more discipline and rigor is required on how we use the term. To date, our key message has been that it is the enterprise CTO who is responsible for defining howRead… Read more »
“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But ofRead… Read more »
It was another awesome year at GovLoop. We: grew to over 63,000 members trained over 10,000 individuals at monthly online trainings launched 12 research guides and infographs hosted 8 in-person events got a sweet ping pong table in the office. In addition to those milestones, here’s my favorite 10 GovLoop items of year: 1) NewRead… Read more »
It all starts with the operating model, at least that is my belief. Since reading Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill and David Robertson I have really focused on understanding one of the foundational statements early in the text regarding the role of the operatingRead… Read more »
Throughout the month of December, GovLoop has been reviewing the year in government technology – everything from BYOD to social media, I’ve been working to highlight some case studies, best practices and try and condense the year down into one post, while looking forward to the year 2013. Follow along here by viewing GovLoop’s YearRead… Read more »