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John Monroe wrote a new post, USDS, OPM Test New Ideas for Improving Hiring Outcomes, on the site GovLoop 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Here’s an idea: When it comes to evaluating candidates for a job, why not get insights from subject matter experts who have firsthand knowledge of the required competencies?
That is the idea behind an ongoing i […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, What a Chartered Federal Employee Benefits Consultant Can Do for You, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 4 weeks ago
As a federal employee, you’re rewarded for your hard work with more than a paycheck. You also get benefits that make up your total compensation and become part of your financial plans for retirement.
It can b […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, How to Make Digital Channel Shift a Reality, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 1 week ago
Live chat, messaging, social media and related digital touchpoints have the potential to help government agencies provide their constituents with better customer service and to lower the cost of delivering those […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, How to Meet the IT Management Challenges of Remote Work, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, government agencies have learned two basic lessons about remote work. First, the experience has diminished doubts about whether employees could work effectively and efficiently […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Election Security Is About More Than Voting Machines, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Conversations around election cybersecurity have gone mainstream. Much of those discussions focus largely on voting machines and known security flaws that hackers can use to compromise the technology. But that’s o […]
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In Racine, Wisconsin, back when the county had actual “curtain-drawn, lever pushing” machines in which to cast ballots in every polling place, the machines rarely broke down, nor could they be tampered with, nor were they inaccurate in tracking the votes. The machines only became obsolete when parts no longer were available to maintain them. Since then, I’ve never experienced a more reliable way to cast a vote, nor gather a total than with those wonderful voting machines.
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Detroit Uses GIS to Map Out Highways in the Sky, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Operational efficiency is one of the four technology tenets of a smart community. It takes many forms, but it essentially involves developing new ways of working that enable agencies to optimize the management and […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, How Crisis Can Drive Innovation for Colorado CIO, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 3 weeks ago
For Colorado, the COVID-19 pandemic could be a turning point. In adapting to the crisis, the state’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) has found itself in a position where it can accelerate its push for IT t […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, At GSA, the New Normal Is Not So New, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 4 weeks ago
For many government agencies, the large-scale move to a remote work environment required a new way of thinking — along with new technologies and policies. That wasn’t the case for the General Services Adm […]
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I like the last note about productivity when working from home. At first, it was a bit of a challenge to get into the groove. But, once I established my routine – I found myself performing better than in-office days even
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Unified Endpoint Security: Bringing Order to Chaos, on the site GovLoop 2 months, 4 weeks ago
In cybersecurity, organizations create chaos with the best of intentions. Their goal is to make incremental gains in security by implementing new solutions that make up for the deficits of older ones and adding […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Simplify Your Data Protection Strategy, on the site GovLoop 3 months ago
Agencies are struggling to protect data across workloads due to a multitude of challenges: the complex environment of different clouds and on-premises systems, strict compliance and security requirements, and the […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Using the Digital Workforce to Improve Resilience, on the site GovLoop 3 months ago
The COVID-19 federal response has further shown that not all agencies have what they need to meet citizen demands, and many public sector workforces are overwhelmed as a result. While federal agencies move from […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, The 5 Elements of Government Digital Transformation, on the site GovLoop 3 months ago
How do you define digital transformation? Many people talk about the technology that enables transformation – and how that technology is acquired, deployed and managed. But at a higher level, you might also say i […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, At GSA, the New Normal Is Not So New, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 1 week ago
For many government agencies, the large-scale move to a remote work environment required a new way of thinking — along with new technologies and policies. That wasn’t the case for the General Services Adm […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, A Pennsylvania County Makes Quicker Work of Property Assessments, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 1 week ago
Assessing property values in Crawford County, in rural northwestern Pennsylvania, is always a challenge, with only three assessors on staff to cover 51 municipalities. The Assessment Office is charged with valuing […]
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This is awesome! A great example of how tech can immediately improve gov’s efficiency by overhauling an old process.
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Creating a Roadmap to Resilience, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 2 weeks ago
In the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, government agencies created a lot of makeshift processes and solutions to continue delivering services to the public, despite having many employees working from home. In […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, How Zero Trust Can Help Agencies Work Better Remotely, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The move to a more distributed workforce predated the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many government employees to work remotely. And remote work will become even more common at most agencies in the next 18-24 […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Why the Future of Security Is Cloud Native, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Recent changes in federal cybersecurity policies and standards are positioning agencies to take full advantage of new and emerging capabilities in cloud, mobility and related technologies.
In particular, the […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Why a People-Centric Approach to Security Has Become a Necessity, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 3 weeks ago
For years, cybersecurity experts have said that the weakest link in an agency’s cyber defense is not a system but a human – the employee who clicks on a link in an email that introduces malware onto the net […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Intelligent Network Visibility Serves as Security Force Multiplier, on the site GovLoop 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Any discussion about improving the security of the federal IT enterprise sooner or later comes around to the topic of network visibility.
The concept of network visibility – the idea that an agency should h […]
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John Monroe wrote a new post, Evolving Cyber Policies Clear Way for Cloud Adoption, on the site GovLoop 4 months ago
The federal government’s sudden, widespread transition to a remote work environment has highlighted the importance of its decision to make policy decisions that remove barriers to cloud adoption.
In p […]
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More of these inclusive hiring practices are needed across government. Everyone benefits, from the hiring managers, to HR to job applicants.