Leadership

Netfloor Cable Management Floor Tiles

Just noticed that the Cable Management Floor tile sample provided to me by Ecotile is branded “Netfloor”. It appears to be a Netfloor AD-400 40 mm (1.57″) UniPanel unit.Netfloor CMS Systems … light in weight, low in profile, fully accessible UniPanel consists 16 sub-panels distributed and simply Capped of Cable Trenches. These trenches house theRead… Read more »

Getting it Right: Critical Success Factors for Change Management Initiatives, Part 2

As a follow-up to last week’s blog https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/getting-it-right-critical#comments this week’s entry focuses on the five additional Critical Success Factors (CSF) that a successful Change Management (CM) program needs. To recap, in last week’s blog, I discussed in detail the following five factors: Effective program management Strong support from the executive champion Clear goals and specificRead… Read more »

Defining Total Cost of Ownership of Government Software – Part III: The “O”

Ownership. It’s a beautiful word in government. “Ownership” exudes control over technology in a sector where control is often hard to come by. There are always new laws, new elected officials, new mandates and new needs. While technology is often purchased to address these needs, sometimes the technology isn’t able to be controlled by theRead… Read more »

Data Centre as a Service

The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO), has issued a “Data Centre as a Service Discussion Paper” and invited industry comment. The Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) facility would provide a shared data centre for smaller agencies (5o spend less than $2M a year on ICT). It is planned to have the service availableRead… Read more »

Using the Small Project Management Guide – Part IV: Project Risk Management

Welcome to part four of the five-part series on how to use the Small Project Management Guide. This week we will discuss risk management which is my favorite project management topic. I’ve included several risk management tools in the Small Project Management Guide. I believe that Andy is a bit skeptical about these tools becauseRead… Read more »

Toward Wiser Public Judgment

I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of Daniel Yankelovich and Will Friedman’s new book in my mailbox yesterday. Toward Wiser Public Judgment (2011) revisits and expands upon Yankelovich’s seminal 1991 book, Coming to Public Judgment, which argued that people advance through several distinct stages to form politically meaningful judgments about public issues. InRead… Read more »