Doing more with less. I’ll bet that’s a phrase you’ve heard before, and have probably become skeptical of. As a matter of fact, in response to a recent GovLoop survey, most of you responded that being asked to do more with less is your biggest challenge. On Government Technology, GovLoop president Steve Ressler gave aRead… Read more »
On today’s program for Monday May 21st, 2012 The TSA is up against an almost impossible task — protecting more than 2 million travelers each day — but are they up for the task? We talk to the former TSA administrator Kip Hawley. To get the best talent — you need to match google,Read… Read more »
All last week it couldn’t be avoided – every newspaper, TV station, magazine was talking about the Facebook IPO. But I never did read much on what it means to GovLoopers…i.e. what the Facebook IPO means for government agencies. So here we go, Steve’s list on what the Facebook IPO means for government agencies: 1)Read… Read more »
It’s been a year and half since the U.S. CIO’s office issued its 25 point implementation plan to reform federal technology management. Chief among them are goals to consolidate at least 800 data centers by 2015 and the shift to a “Shared First” policy, under which the federal government had identified $20 billion in ITRead… Read more »
Red Herring America’s is a conference starting on Monday 21 May (here is the agenda). This is an invitation only event. But if you are not going there should be plenty of information flowing out of the conference, it is widely attended by IT thought leaders and will be covered by Red Herring, of course.Read… Read more »
Last week, I attended the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds annual conference. I realize the theme for the conference was “Inspire the Future,” but an underlying theme I sensed was “Keeping up with the Future.” Our society and the technological changes are hitting us at an exponential rate. Like one of the attendees said toRead… Read more »
The Department of Defense Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer has a long running history of seeking out the best ideas for improving DoD oversight and management of department financial management systems, operations and controls. The office has a mandate to transform the way DoD does business. Here is a bit more from theirRead… Read more »
I’ve just written a wrap-up post over on the Mailcamp site about Thursday’s Mailcamp12 event at the NAO, which saw over 80 people discuss email marketing, newsletters and alerts with similarly smart folk from across and beyond the public sector. As I say there: For me, it felt like the conversation had moved on aRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda The business world was all atwitter about Facebook, but my round-up is about Twitter this week. Twitter in the US and the UK. Brunel University published “An Overview Study of Twitter in the UK Local Government,” and the IBM Center released “Working the Network,” a Twitter guide for federal agencies, written by SyracuseRead… Read more »
Government is a lot like the weather. Everybody complains about it, nobody does anything about it. I was once told, “The problem with government workers is they don’t have any customers.” That would create behavior. No customers means no meaningful feedback, no praise for doing right. That’s an ugly career. Something has to change. OurRead… Read more »