Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Creating jobs, improving the economy through innovation, and increasing America’s global competitiveness are incredibly important right now, and a lot of the improvement in these areas will come from small “startup” businesses in major metro areas around the country. In that vein, the Startup America partnership welcomed people to aRead… Read more »
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If you’ve ever smoked, and tried to quit, chances are you know how much fun quitting, and quit attempts, aren’t. The cravings, the mood swings, the weight gain – ugh! What if quitting smoking was fun instead? Funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Program grant, Lit2Quit is a mobile game that aims toRead… Read more »
Forrester Research names Workday Leader in Human Resource Management Systems – read report here: https://www.workday.com/landing_page/report_forrester_wave_lp.php?camp=70180000000koV8&campid=ussm_gl_lo_ps_257
In a Results-Only Work Environment, paid time off is unlimited as long as the work gets done. That applies to sick time as well – keeping in mind laws and compliance around leaves of absence. Looking at the true intention of ROWE, if someone doesn’t feel well or can’t work, they get paid and noRead… Read more »
Intrigued? Check out more info here, with the release of SAS Hadoop today! http://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/2012/03/06/sas-hadoop-a-peek-at-the-technology/
If you are a project manager, you will have to deal with organizational politics in virtually every part of your work. Whether it’s trying to attract a sponsor, grab a star performer for your project team, or compete with another project manager for scarce resources, every decision you make will have a political impact. IfRead… Read more »
In these difficult economic times local governments need to be more innovative in how they operate. Local governments will not be able to cut their way out of their current budget crisis, instead they will have to find ways of delivering services that are smarter, faster and cheaper. Creativity and innovation are needed in localRead… Read more »
I’ll be talking about “e-democracy: New Trends in On-line Public Deliberation” at City Forum in Austin this week: City Forum is a planning and urban issues speaker series hosted by the Community and Regional Planning Student Organization (CRPSO) and the Community and Regional Planning Program (CRP) at the University of Texas at Austin. The bi-weeklyRead… Read more »