We’ve all heard the story of the flight attendant who saved her airline $40,000 by recommending one less olive be used in every salad, right? It’s a question of optimization — the money saved outweighs the value the customer received from getting that one extra olive to enjoy. These days, governments are dealing with theRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Derek Johnson reports. When Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick introduced his proposed $30.5 billion FY 2011-2012 budget in his January 26, 2011 address, he began by highlighting not what was in the budget, but rather what was not. Patrick advertised what he called “the largest year-over-year spending reduction in 20 years,” and couched theRead… Read more »
Some of you may have seen that the White House recently conducted a (non-scientific) survey of its Facebook fans and Twitter followers. The results are now in. In case you were curious about what can be found out from something like this, you can read about it here. A few noteworthy findings are… 50% ofRead… Read more »
Dr. Patrick Gallagher is the director of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he helps promote the advancement of measurement science, standards and technology. He previously served as the agency’s deputy director, as well as the director of the NIST Center for Neutron Research. He also worked asRead… Read more »
New Reports New Report: Information Needs of Communities (by the FCC) “The FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities today delivered an in-depth analysis of the current state of the media landscape along with a broad range of recommendations. The staff-level report, titled “Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in aRead… Read more »
“Dad, just so you know… I think I probably failed the test, may drop the class, ruin my GPA, loose the scholarship money for the summer session, and it’s the end of the world as we know it!” Most every family has one, an over-achiever that makes the rest of us look like slackers. InRead… Read more »
The Partnership and Citizen Engagement Branch of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has sent out a call for citizen engagement “cases” or “stories” that they would like to publish in their new CIHR Citizen Engagement in Health Casebook (April 2012). More information about the project can be found at http://bit.ly/lLcJps Original post
The summer heat has arrived in D.C. and we’re sure to have temperatures in the 80s and 90s for the foreseeable future. Inevitably, we’ll all be blasting the air conditioners in our homes, apartments, cars and offices. I know mine is certainly getting a ton of use as we reached 99 degrees in DC yesterday.Read… Read more »
How do you “engage stakeholders” and “gather requirements” in 2011? Outside the workplace, people and technology have co-evolved. We Facebook,” we text, we tweet, some of us “check in,” all while listening to music that is streaming to us on customized or micro-segmented “radio” channels. We connect with friends long moved away, we coordinate overRead… Read more »