By BobGourley Software AG’s ARIS Platform has capabilities for ensuring your enterprise aligns technology to mission. These capabilities include support to strategy development, design/architecture, monitoring, modeling and continual enhancement of your entire enterprise. Software AG has gained an almost continuous string of laudatory comments and analyst recommendations for their ARIS platform (see here, for example).Read… Read more »
By BobGourley Savanna by Thetus is a powerful suite of tools that let you work through the lifecycle of analytical issues, including some very complex, knotty problems. It is the only tool I know of that enables fast, user-generated, model-enabled analysis. It is very capable, and surprisingly easy to learn. This means once an enterpriseRead… Read more »
Last week, GovLoop and YGL hosted a half day training event for up and coming government leaders, who heard from experts on the topics of career management, leadership, communications, and more. One of the sessions, titled “Become a Brilliant Communicator” provided tips on communicating via email and telephone, giving and receiving feedback, and holding successfulRead… Read more »
Obama’s first term in office brought in innovative technology leaders like Todd Park, Bryan Sivak and Vivek Kundra, to name a few. With his reelection, we can expect four more years of their and others’ continued work in the space of government data. But what does that really mean? We at Captricity have been thinkingRead… Read more »
This holiday season, the Government Accountability Office is compiling a list and checking it twice – of all the government programs it deems as potentially duplicative or overlapping. Three years ago, GAO was required by law to annually publish a report detailing duplicative, overlapping, and fragmented federal programs. It will be issuing its third reportRead… Read more »
Next Friday, December 21st, is a big day for the internet. It is the culminating day of the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, the only conference of its kind in 24 years. On the agenda is a of review the international telecommunication regulations. Since the previous meeting in 1988, much has changed onRead… Read more »
By BobGourley A friend at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency mentioned that they have a search underway for a critically important new position on their leadership team. Details are at the USAjobs.com job listing and are also pasted below, but I want to underscore something: Clearly they are looking for someone who can think out ofRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. CIA invests in mobile security company to keep transactions under wraps – In-Q-Tel made a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Tyfone to “bring mobile security in cloud and NFC transactions to the U.S. government.” Agencies, such as the CIA, thatRead… Read more »
“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” – Dale Carnegie Government employees spent a lot of time in meetings. Stepping up your game at these meetings is not hard. When you do, it can have a positive effect on your career and can makeRead… Read more »
Identifying the business value of your portfolio is critical to overcoming hurdles I was talking with one of our Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy partners the other day and he brought up an interesting request from a client. The client was in the midst of deploying a large enterprise portfolio management solution and the clientRead… Read more »