Across the public sector, agencies are faced with the challenge of understanding how to drive decisions by using analytics. With such tight budgets, limited resources and ever growing complexities facing public administrators, government is challenged with the task of identifying the best way to use data to enhance citizen services. As operational challenges grow inRead… Read more »
The Do’s and Don’ts of Contests, Cloud in Intelligence, Is Acquisition boring for Millennials? by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for April 2, 2012 Apps for the Environment… it is one of the more successful challenges that the government has conducted. What worked… and what didn’t? The EPA has put together their lessons learned —Read… Read more »
There’s a lot of talk about challenges and contests and many government organizations are actually doing them. But what works and what doesn’t? Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency conducted a challenge… Apps for the Environment — the EPA’s developer challenge. The goal was to create environmental applications using EPA data. And the challenge scoredRead… Read more »
Apparently yes! In fact, Bob Gourley, the Chief Technology Officer at Crucial Point, says the Intelligence Community is leading the cloud computing charge. He’s just wrapped up a whitepaper for the Intelligence Community. He told Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program why. Bob Gourley talks Cloud Computing with Chris Dorobek by cdorobek The 8 BigRead… Read more »
Millennials — they are often motivated, pushy, impatient and innovative — they want change and they want it now. So it seems like they would be a perfect fit for the acquisition community. But there’s a problem. Not many young people are interested. One of the reason could be it’s lack of “cool” appeal. NoRead… Read more »
Since GovLoop was founded, we have been holding various meet ups for government employees across the country. Our latest stop was in Austin, Texas, in which we gathered to discuss three of the top technology trends in government. Our session focused on social media, mobile, and cloud technology. The event was not only a greatRead… Read more »
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue 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.Read… Read more »
I am looking forward to attending the FOSE Conference April 3-5 in Washington DC. This is the final post in a blog series highlighting the 2012 conference tracks. Throughout this week I have been highlighting one of the tracks and provide some insights on what you can expect to see at FOSE 2012. The fiveRead… Read more »
We’re thrilled to bring you a special edition of the DorobekINSIDER today. Chris Dorobek is out of the DorobekINSIDER offices hosting the Acquisition Excellence 2012 Conference. The event is being put on the by GSA and ACT-IAC. But we couldn’t leave you hanging. So we’ve put together a highlight reel from our latest Book ClubRead… Read more »
I am looking forward to attending the FOSE Conference April 3-5 in Washington DC. This is the fourth post in a blog series highlighting the 2012 conference tracks. Throughout this week I have been highlighting one of the tracks and provide some insights on what you can expect to see at FOSE 2012. The fiveRead… Read more »