How Soft Skills Can Help You Land Your Next Job
Recent studies have found that employers increasingly emphasized the importance of soft skills when hiring and promoting workers.
Posts By John Monroe
How AI Opens up Other Types of Data
Agencies have a wealth of unstructured data — images, audio recordings and other information that doesn’t fit neatly in traditional databases or lend itself to analysis by traditional data tools — at their fingertips. So how can government make sense of all this data? How can agencies actually use it?
Budgeting Is a Collaborative Effort
The traditional budgeting approach used by local governments has many downsides, including a reliance on siloed data and an inability to identify how agencies can deliver services more efficiently and effectively. But rules-based software, which offers a digital and personalized approach, helps to solve those problems.
Take a Smarter Approach to Hiring, Upskilling Staff
Agencies can’t afford to rely on guesswork to hire and retain talent – they need data. Four government and industry experts explain just what that means.
A People-Centered Approach to Problem-Solving
An interview with Tara McGuinness, on how networks, technology, management and data practices can be used to tackle inequity and other challenges.
How to Make Digital Documents Work for You
Manually sifting through data is time-consuming and terribly inefficient. A digital approach to documentation, however, can yield faster, more accurate and more insightful outcomes.
Government Transformation: Adopting Cloud for Maximum Impact
Government needs to provide both its employees and the public with modernized online experiences, including on-demand access to data and services. But facing an array of challenges, how can agencies deliver what they should? An innovative, “single pane of glass” approach gives states the ability to let people easily access resources from multiple agencies and… Read more »
Future-Proof Your Critical Data Initiatives
Agencies need the ability to manage their data seamlessly, whether it’s on premises or in the cloud, in order to take advantage of innovative opportunities. A solution known as an open source relationship database management system (RDBMS) can help.
Gain Fiscal Predictability Through Pay-as-You-Go IT
Federal agencies often lack the financial resources to pay for IT modernization expenditures up front, despite the long-term cost savings of that approach. Instead, agencies are relying on on-demand consumption models that deliver simplified and predictable pricing.
Cloud vs. On-Prem? You Might Have a Better Option
Agencies have a choice beyond on-prem and public/private/hybrid cloud operations that offers the best of both worlds: on-demand, single-tenant architecture.