Yearly Archives: 2012

An Introduction To Thetus Savanna: Bringing advanced analysis software to the enterprise

By BobGourley Thetus Corporation is a semantic knowledge modeling and analysis software company based in Portland Oregon. Their multi-source analysis platform is known as Savanna. The Savanna solution packages intuitive design, quick access to multiple information sources, and a powerful suite of analytical tools for geo-cultural and spatio-temporal analysis. Savanna is model-enabled from the groundRead… Read more »

2012 NCDD Conference guidebook available for download!

Andy and I are getting ready for our trip to Seattle tomorrow for the 2012 NCDD conference, and we can’t tell you how excited we are to see everybody! We have 376 registrants as of this morning, and our planning team members are all bustling around to make sure everything comes together smoothly. Download ourRead… Read more »

Mobile Devices, Bring your own or use a Government Furnished Device

The following blog was written by Nate Rushfinn, a Principal Customer Solutions Architect with CA Technologies. No, you can’t have it your way! According to a recent Gartner Group CIO study, by 2016 80% of employees will be eligible to use their own equipment with employer data. But a Forester study revealed that today, 37%Read… Read more »

Thank You For All Your Hard Work

Many of you likely joined the government to work with the system to create positive impacts for society. Your agencies have pro-social missions, like promoting public health, preserving natural land, defending the nation, etc. But are these agency missions enough to maintain a high job satisfaction? No, according to the Partnership for Public Service’s BestRead… Read more »

Amateur Hour at MWW…

It’s amateur hour at Monster Worldwide’s HQ and Sal Iannuzzi and the Sopranos have some damage control to do. While working at my computer Friday afternoon (3:45pm to be exact), an email flew across that my trade for the October PUTS executed. I was stunned! I had a “Good Till Cancel” trade for the OctoberRead… Read more »

Dialogue Seeds Strong and Growing Change in New Mexico

Dialogue-to-change is not simply a buzzword—it’s an active and real process that sees the bigger picture. The picture that says we can never have an energetic and authentic democracy without being connected to local communities and helping connect the dots to a national movement for change. In 2010, with the generous support of the W.K.Read… Read more »

Leadership: Ownership and Responsibility

Recently on the Harvard Business Review, John Coleman posted an excellent article, Take Ownership of Your Actions by Taking Responsibility (help is not on the way) that addresses expectations on the part of executive leadership. I found this particularly interesting because I recently caught myself feeling this very thing being asked, “do you feel stalledRead… Read more »

It’s the Social Era, and We Still Need Mission, Vision and Values

Recently I have found myself running virtually every business topic I consider though the grid of the social era. This is particularly interesting to me since there are a number of principles in business that are timeless in nature, but undergo countless changes in their application due to sociological shifts. Organizational change is no exception.Read… Read more »