by Lloyd McCoy Jr., Senior Analyst I recently attended a luncheon where several deputy CIOs from the Defense, Agriculture, and Interior Departments, as well as the GSA IT Transition Executive, spoke about their cost saving initiatives. Besides providing progress reports on their consolidation and optimization efforts, they called on vendors that had extensive footprints withinRead… Read more »
Well, does your business or agency suck? I doubt you’ve asked yourself this question before in quite such a direct manner. This might sound harsh, and maybe it is. Lousy customer service, poor innovation, and bad leadership all contribute to terrible organizational culture- those things all impact your performance and how successful your business is.Read… Read more »
America is the only high-income country with no federal law requiring paid leave for new parents. In 1993, President Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, which requires larger employers and public agencies to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for the birth or adoption of a new child. About 40 percentRead… Read more »
ELGL corporate member Colin Baenziger & Associates asks that you consider the following opportunity: City Manager, Ankeny, IA (population 46,000) Located in central Iowa, Ankeny is an upscale, suburban style community located a little north of Des Moines. It is rapidly growing and brimming with potential. A warm and friendly place, the community has managedRead… Read more »
Down I-5 we go to learn more about the career of Jeff Towery, Springfield assistant city manager. No matter where you work, you have probably heard about Jeff either through his work with the innovative programs in Springfield, his involvement in professional associations OCCMA and ICMA, or through (our favorite) his Twitter feed. ELGL wasRead… Read more »
Baker Resigns; Councilor Calls Damascus a “Hellhole” Newest Members: Tom Hogue, Dept Land Conservation and Development, Economic Development Specialist Jessica LaVigne, Pacific Lutheran University, Student Next Forums: June 6 – Heather Gantz, Waldron Senior Consultant, Bend, Oregon June 12 – Lunch and Learn with Center for Priority Based Budgeting June 20 – ELGL Willamette ValleyRead… Read more »
A few weeks ago I was at an event in Victoria, British Columbia at event where people were discussing the possibilities, challenges and risk of open data. During the conversation, one of the participants talked about how they wanted an API for business license applications from the city. This is a pretty unusual request –Read… Read more »
By Bob Gourley Lessons learned from US agents who operate in enemy territory have been captured for years and transformed into a code of conduct popularly known as “Moscow Rules.” These rules of human intelligence tradecraft exist for a reason. Real-world experience has proven their effectiveness when agents must operate in the presence of adversaries.Read… Read more »
Join us for a fun afternoon meetup immediately before this year’s Frontiers of Democracy conference begins! On Thursday, July 18th from 1-4pm at Tufts in Medford, Massachusetts, we’ll do some “speed networking,” spend time in small groups learning about some of the region’s most exciting dialogue and deliberation projects, and talk some about what isRead… Read more »
Stand By Soft is pleased to announce the release of MOOS Project Viewer 3.0. Current version adds support for opening Microsoft Project 2013 files. At the same time the application now offers native integration with Ubuntu operating system. After several months of development a major version was released that added support for reading Microsoft ProjectRead… Read more »