The Security Innovation Network is a group with a mission. They seek to advance innovation and global collaboration between public and private sectors to defeat cyber security threats. They do this through a variety of focused activities and events, leading to a capstone event known as the SINET Showcase. The 2011 Showcase will be 25Read… Read more »
This article, ‘Fostering Innovation through Open Government‘, from Aneesh Chopra the US Chief Technology Officer, is a great snapshot of the link between new technologies and open models and the policy benefits they will drive. In this case he focuses on the topic important to us all, economic development through innovation. This kind of linkRead… Read more »
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the shift from a ‘push’ to a ‘pull’ information economy. The same forces are also changing the nature of knowledge management (KM) – replacing a model in which KM was an activity that was centralized in terms of time, personnel, and location, to a highly distributed activity. ThisRead… Read more »
Walter Pincus of the Washington Post brought up a darn good question earlier this week: Which is more important, the person(ality) at the top of your organization or the way it’s structured? In many ways, this brings to mind the old debate about a coach’s job. Is it to motivate players, inspire them, help eachRead… Read more »
When working in a team environment, how do you deal with a consistent dissenter who is vocal about what has not worked in the past? – Federal manager (GS-15) from the Department of Education It can be hard to inspire a team when you’re faced with dissension from another team member. In fact, their negativityRead… Read more »
Thanks to Bruce Rosenstein, columnist, librarian and author of Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life for this guest post: 25 Years of Drucker. Read on… On June 15th, I will be presenting a Spotlight Session at the 2011 SLA Annual Conference in Philadelphia, “Creating YourRead… Read more »
As a trained library information professional and from what I see where I work in the Department of Veteran Affairs, I see a definite need for taxonomy development and content management. In many large organizations, the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. This is not intentional; it’s the result of notRead… Read more »
In Episode 19 of the Green Government Podcast we talk with Kevin Kampschroer, Director of the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings at the U.S. General Services Administration. Kevin has created the framework for which GSA responds to the challenges of greenhouse gas emissions reductions and of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s mandate toRead… Read more »
Dr. Marcia McNutt is the director of the U.S. Geological Survey, the nation’s largest Earth, water, biological science and civilian mapping agency. Previously, she served as president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. McNutt is a distinguished scientist, participating in 15 major oceanographic expeditions and serving as chief scientist onRead… Read more »
This article was originally published on Tri Tuns Blog. OBSERVATION A common practice – and TRAP – of change management is to attempt to convince (“sell”) end-users that the new IT system is beneficial to them. Change management teams spend several hours trying to “spin” their communications to attain this goal. The fallacy is spendingRead… Read more »