Learn to Consult Like an Expert

“What’s the Big Think?” What do all leaders have in common? They were all indoctrinated into the same problem-solving methods you are about to learn We want to move from an organization with a haphazard approach, where we are spinning our wheels, trying to solve opaque and undefined problems, before eventually answering the wrong question.Read… Read more »

Final thought – ACQ ABC’s

– Relationships, Relationships, Relationships – Analysis, Analysis, Analysis – Be Relevant – Users’ Approval Chains are not the enemy – This is really about Risk Management

Jonny Dorsey at NextGen: Five Actions to Advance Government

Jonny Dorsey is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Global Health Corps, an initiative that brings talented individuals into public health communities around the world. At the opening NextGen general session, he shared five major points from a study done by the Impact Careers Initiative at the Aspen Institute. The study seeks to understand whyRead… Read more »

We accomplish smart buying by collaboration between the Program Office and Contracting office.

Aphorism 90

The demand for bad products can be inelastic with respect to failure. Chris Dillow Original post

Acquisition ABC’s

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is important because this is the publication that implements the policies and procedures for acquisition by all federal agencies. Check out www.acquisition.gov/FAR for details.

Social media impacts on ICT teams – presentation from the Technology in Government conference

Over the last two days I’ve been down at the Technology in Government conference – an event I thought went very well, with a great group of speakers (including the UK Government’s CIO Liam Maxwell). I gave a presentation this morning, and chaired the afternoon, for the Connected Government stream and have uploaded my presentationRead… Read more »