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Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Raytheon on Getting Your Foot In Their Door

If you had the opportunity to speak with VPs from Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Boeing simultaneously, what would you say? If you attended MED Week, you would have had the opportunity to figure out how your small businesses could align and even team with these primes. A panel discussion on supplier management —Read… Read more »

You Are A Twit

Or at least you should be If you haven’t yet discovered Twitter as an awesome way to find great project management resources, let me introduce you. You, this is Twitter. Twitter, meet you. You can easily search Twitter for whatever type of project management resources you are interested in. You will quickly notice people youRead… Read more »

The Intranet is not a single system

This post is not about stating anything new…but merely sharing some thoughts… In my new role I am also responsible for the councils Intranet, which is currently not fit for purpose as the core technology for content, much like our public website is using an outdated technology, it doesn’t support dynamic content and is generallyRead… Read more »

Take a number

We are not the customers of our own services. And even if we think we are, we are still not: we know too much, we cannot stop thinking as provider or designer. Sometimes we are the customers of other people’s services and that holds up a mirror – sometimes a very distorting mirror – toRead… Read more »

CTO Competencies

There has been some discussion on the Govloop-CTO Forum pertaining to CTO competencies and I thought I’d post a list of competencies that we’ve put together to build a curriculum for CTOs at the iCollege of the National Defense University. This list has been reviewed by hundreds of people (many of whom are CTOs) andRead… Read more »

One Space Between Sentences, But How Many Returns?

GovLoop members tackled and thankfully put out there for all who wanted to know the answer to: How many spaces are you supposed to put between sentences? It’s one in case anyone missed the many responses and reasons why it is “one” and not “two”. Well here is another question–given that revelation (I was broughtRead… Read more »

Open Is Dead.

Open is dead. That’s the conclusion I came to at a recent meeting of people gathered to talk about how to advance the Open Data agenda. Open isn’t dead as a movement, it’s dead as a term that can be used to excite people, get them to rally around a cause, show up at anRead… Read more »

Upcoming Panel Discussion: Can Technology Fix California Governments?

I look forward to joining this Zócalo/New America Foundation event as co-panelist, October 26, 2011 at Stanford. From the announcement: Zócalo in Palo Alto: Can Technology Save California Governments? California has more than 4,500 local governments, yet it still often feels ungoverned. Proponents of so-called “e-government” say technology can change that: the digital world, theyRead… Read more »

Carol Covin – Finding Ada

October 7 is Ada Lovelace Day, the international holiday honoring women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths. It can be anybody, I like people finding a better way to do important things. This year I’d like to pick on Carol Covin…because I think she is going to cure cancer. She’s not running around in aRead… Read more »