COTS Opportunities within the Financial Management Shared Services Initiative

by Chris Wiedemann, Analyst Last Friday, July 19th, Treasury’s Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation (FIT) held a teleconference discussing the financial management shared services initiative, and went over some ground that should prove very interesting to industry – particularly COTS vendors looking to sell financial management solutions. The current federal financial management landscape makesRead… Read more »

Think Fast! How Improv Can Help You Innovate

We all know what improv is. It’s a form of acting where actors create scenes and characters on the spot, generally inspired by one word or a simple phrase. But how does improv relate to what you do every day at work? And what lessons can you learn from improv as a young federal employee?Read… Read more »

How 2 Live Regret Free

The late great Steve Jobs once said “If today were the last day of my life…would I want to do what I have to do today?” Ben Sands, Founder and CEO of Regret Free Life, shared with the attendees of NextGen 2013 how to life a regret free life and as future leaders how notRead… Read more »

Paint by Numbers

As a child, Dr. Karla Drenner (D-GA House of Representatives) loved to paint by numbers. She said her mother would tell her to “be mindful and stay inside the lines.” As an adult, she discovered its okay to break the rules and create your own masterpiece. Paintings express the way we see things or wouldRead… Read more »

A Promising New Landscape for Health IT

For many people, the mere thought of going to the doctor summons images of long lines, impatient receptionists and complicated insurance billing systems. But the introduction of technology into the healthcare arena may diminish or eliminate these troubling scenes that confront us all too often at the doctor’s office. Many patients envision a healthcare systemRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: July 26, 2013

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Alex Howard has a brief summation and then encyclopedic details of the “Champions of Change” awards and winners. The topic is interesting, and, as ever, the multiplatform storytelling–blending original copy, tweets, Vines, and video–is instructive. The State Department announced a new $10,000 innovation challenge: What Information Technology Tools and Concepts Can Support FutureRead… Read more »

John Mahoney Appears on Federal News Radio

Check it out. What do you think abougt this federal employment law matter? John Mahoney on Federal News Radio

An Interview with Curt Beckmann of Brocade

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Curt Beckmann, Principal Architect, Office of the Chief Technology Officer at Brocade. Curt is extremely influential in the Open Networking Foundation and spends a lot of time working with groups creating new, more agile network standards. A software defined networking (SDN) and cloud evangelist, Curt and IRead… Read more »

Epic win for NYC’s Open Data Community! PLUTO is free!

Since the signing of New York City’s Open Data Law on March 7, 2012, open data and geo-spacial nurds have been wondering when the City’s extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level would be liberated. Today, New York City Department of City Planning liberated PLUTO and mapPLUTO. New York City’s OpenRead… Read more »

Creating Innovation: “A Field Guide to Herding Cats”

Creating Innovation in Government NextGen Conference Luncheon Keynote Presented by Andreas Addison, “Civic Innovator,” City of Richmond, VA How can you innovate in government? Andreas Addison, self proclaimed Civic Innovator for the City of Richmond, VA, compares the process of creating innovation in government to herding cats. It is a challenge to make a catRead… Read more »