What is ITIL ITIL stands for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library Is a set of best practice areas for managing IT as services. These best practice areas follow the lifecycle of a service. These practice areas are: Service Strategy, Service Design Service, Service Transition, Service Operation, and Continuous Improvement Who should care CxOs especially CIOsRead… Read more »
The mail has been losing out to faster forms of communication for some time now, and it’s put a serious financial strain on the Postal Service. Congress is now looking at dramatically overhauling the agency to return it to financial solvency. Last week, Representative Darrell Issa (R-California) introduced The Postal Reform Act, which would restructureRead… Read more »
Tweet Nevada and New Jersey are moving forward on transparency. Nevada Governor Bill Sandoval signed a package of laws on Friday designed to increase transparency around hospital quality statewide. The new laws are designed to make more information available to the public about the quality of patient care, incident of infection and patient readmissions. NewRead… Read more »
TransLink (BC) will end its discounted pass program for residents of UniverCity on Burnaby Mountain at the end of the year. Under the Community Pass program, about 900 of the 3,000 residents paid $30 per month for three-zone passes that would otherwise cost $151 per month. The goal was to encourage transit use among membersRead… Read more »
When planning a project, do you include time to celebrate? The completion? Overcoming that thorny problem to get things moving again? Figuring a way to still stay in budget? At the Leadership Breakfast – Reston today, we discussed leadership and teams, and of course communications came up as a problem and solution to several performanceRead… Read more »
Deltek Principal Analyst Jason Sajko reports. Challenged by an anticipated budget shortfall of more than $13 billion, IL Governor Quinn and the state legislature passed tax increases in January, 2011 that are projected to create more than $6 billion in increased revenue per year. Then, in February, Quinn unveiled his FY 2012 recommended budget. TheRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Evan Halperin reports. Last summer, INPUT reported on fiscal year 2011 (FY 11) federal funding requests for the public safety and homeland security markets. For FY 11, approximately $1.29 billion was available for state and local agencies to utilize for various projects including new radio systems, computer aided dispatch software and personnel, andRead… Read more »
It’s time to take the next evolutionary step on the path of leadership-business success. While the step seems obvious, as many have noted common sense is often quite uncommon. More than ever organizations and businesses need to initiate new and varied approaches to connecting and collaborating with their customers and employees, especially by proactively solicitingRead… Read more »
Happy Friday, everyone! You know what time it is. It’s time for the… Friday Fab 5! We’ve had some great blogs and discussions going on this week here on GovLoop so let’s take a look back and highlight a few of them! The information in these posts are great to reread and even use asRead… Read more »
Beth Beck, Space Operations Outreach Manager at NASA, has created a national community of rocketry and exploration enthusiasts. And she’s helped a generation unfamiliar with the thrills of NASA’s Mercury and Apollo eras understand that the space agency is more than budget battles and tragically lost Space Shuttles. How has Beck boosted outer spaceRead… Read more »