The story of appointees as good servants and ghosts as spoilers By Dana Cruikshank, College of Architecture and Urban Studies “Matthew Dull is working to fill the gaps in what we know about how our government works – and how sometimes it doesn’t. Turn on a prime-time cable channel or talk-radio show, and the messageRead… Read more »
Policy Fellow Matt Rumsey wrote this post. Here is the week’s first look at transparency-related news items, congressional committee hearings, transparency-related bills introduced in Congress, and transparency-related events. News Roundup: International The United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and the US House of Representatives are organizing an event to promote and discuss the use of openRead… Read more »
“A new push to improve performance also could change how the government chooses chief operating officers, with an eye toward candidates who find true interest in data-driven reviews of federal programs.” Read more of the article Original post
“Founded in 1981, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is one of the leading organizations in the country working on public policy issues affecting low-income families and individuals. The Center specializes in research and analysis oriented toward practical policy decisions and produces solid analytic reports on a timely basis that are accessible to publicRead… Read more »
The Leadership Game is a new, recurrent feature about leadership lessons from the world of sports. Uncertainty has been a recurrent theme in the past year. The Federal government has had 3 near miss brushes with shutdown, and state and local governments have resorted to furloughs to meet budget shortfalls. Government is designed to operateRead… Read more »
By Kathryn Troutman, Author, Federal Resume Guidebook and CD-ROM, 5th Ed. and Federal Career Consultant, www.resume-place.com Do you want to avoid the most common pitfalls that I have seen in the Work Experience section of the federal resume? Whether you are just sitting down to draft your federal resume, or if you already have whatRead… Read more »
As we enter 2012, the pace of change in mobile technologies is on hyper-speed, while government is still moving at the pace of, well, government. Here are some thoughts on how government can catch up with what I call Mobile Development Life Cycle (“MDLC”) 1.0, when MDLC 2.0 is already in full swing: • PhaseRead… Read more »
A week or so ago, GovLoop started a discussion on what a government innovation lab would look like. Some great comments on how to build collaborative workspaces but I felt that the discussion missed the greater point of how to make government agencies more innovative. The major problem with innovation labs is that they mayRead… Read more »
Ken Miller has written a great book titled Extreme Government Make Over, which I am going to write about in a four part series of posts this week. Miller is the founder of the Change and Innovation Agency, a firm dedicated to helping government increase its capacity to do more good. If you are interestedRead… Read more »
I was interested in hearing from both the vendor and 1102 community on the “triggers” of a protest, and if any best practices could be conducted to avoid a protest or avoid a protest from being upheld. The post on GovLoop and LinkedIn elicited some great feedback, although it was interesting to see the sourceRead… Read more »