Deltek Analyst Derek Johnson reports. The 2011 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference was held October 17-21 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference was almost exclusively IT-based and focused on strategies to leverage IT solutions and systems software, and technology to improve the higher education learning experience. Judging by the more thanRead… Read more »
All, During my morning Harvard “Management Tip Of The Day” feed read, I ran across an article that speaks to managerial on-the-spot decision making. The article is printed, in its entirety below and attached as well. It’s pretty self explanatory. ———————————————– Conventional wisdom holds that a flawed decision is better than no decision. After all,Read… Read more »
Please join us for the full Federal Intranet Content Managers (FICM) GoToMeeting on Nov 10 at 11 am PST. Dave Hebert will be the MC and Allison Soussi-Tanani will be our coordinator. Two of our FICM Steering Committee members will kick off the meeting with talks on “personas”. Our highlighted speaker this month is NickRead… Read more »
I wanted to share a post from HP’s Mark Budgell on last week’s announcement that our PC business will remain part of HP. As we have said throughout the evaluation process, we absolutely stand by our PC products and customers, and we’re excited to continue doing so together with HP. http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/HP-Family-Better-Together/ba-p/74165 A couple monthsRead… Read more »
Six clinics in Montana will be the subject of a new, federal coordinated care pilot. The clinics are located in Helena, Missoula, Bozeman, Livingston, Great Falls and Libby and will get extra money for every Medicare patient they see. The money will go to create coordinated care programs for these patients. The coordinated care programRead… Read more »
Co-Chairs of the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, Nigel Jacob and Chris Osgood — and the lead city partners on our Boston project — have been named two of nine “Public Officials of the Year” by Governing! New Urban Mechanics is an agency within Boston’s Mayor’s office tasked with finding new approaches toRead… Read more »
For the PMFers out there, an update from OPM: We are still on schedule to notify applicants by November 1. Applicants will receive a Notice of Results email at the address they used to apply. This notice will also be available in your Application Manager account. The External Assessment listing in Application Manager corresponds toRead… Read more »
Back in April, President Obama issued an executive order directing agencies to step up their efforts to improve customer service. Whatever happened? The Executive Order gave agencies until the last week of October to provide their plans to the Office of Management and Budget, and last week the plans were delivered and posted on OMB’sRead… Read more »
The Washington Capitals are off to their best start in team history. I’ve enjoyed watching the games on television with my nine-year-old son Jack, and he’s been thrilled with their performance after they flopped in the playoffs last year. While watching a game the other night, he asked, “Why is the team playing so muchRead… Read more »
When talking about leadership, Dick Davies said “leadership can not be taught – it can only be learned.” It caught me by surprise at the time, but has stayed with me as a fundamental in developing leaders. Learn by doing. In my youth, I wanted to learn to play tennis and read several books aboutRead… Read more »