Every once in a while most executives, managers, or anyone who is pushing hard to achieve a little more and perform a little better, is going to run into times that they’re going to have to go above and beyond. Times where you’re going to have to put in a lot of hours in aRead… Read more »
A Highlight from the upcoming NAGC Communications School. Having great relationships with others is vital to advancing your career. The relationship between you as a supervisor and those you supervise is one of the most important. But between long, busy workdays and stressful situations, that relationship can get ignored or thrown out the door entirely.Read… Read more »
A Highlight from the upcoming NAGC Communications School. Can government communicators influence their leaders toward greater transparency? That’s the goal of a major effort in South Eastern Europe. Having done away with their socialist past in the early 1990s following the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the nation states in the broader regionRead… Read more »
Redundant federal programs are leading to billions in waste. Even worse, the Government Accountability Office says in their new report that the government is slow to adopt reforms to fix the problem. Nikki Clowers is a Director of Financial Markets and Community Investment Issues at GAO. She told Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program thatRead… Read more »
The demand for distributed data is increasing as companies are more and more spread across the world with the current globalization. And with the increase of cloud resources and tools offerings even smaller companies are starting to use such services once the prices have lowered. As many other domains project management is also embracing thisRead… Read more »
Virginia has a long history of technology innovation and pro-business/pro-growth policies. It is also blessed with a great mix of generally good weather, great recreation, fantastic engineering and computer science schools, and a state legislature and group of voters that consistently elect leaders who seek to keep taxes tolerable. When you add in the factRead… Read more »
Looking for an overview guide to understanding how the federal government goes about managing the performance of its many goals, missions, and programs? Here it is! The President’s fiscal year 2014 budget was released last week and emphasizes the creation of “a culture of performance improvement.” This is also the theme of a new IBMRead… Read more »
The following blog post is an excerpt from our recent report, Crafting a Comprehensive Digital Government Strategy. This report was draws upon a survey of 94 members of the GovLoop community who are currently adopting emerging technology at the state, local and federal level of government. This report also includes insights based on interviews withRead… Read more »
Police officers in a Dallas suburb are spending more time policing and less time accounting for their gear these days, thanks to adoption of an asset management solution that uses RFID tags to track everything they need, down to the uniforms on their backs. According to a recent post on the RFID Journal blog, RichardsonRead… Read more »
Part I, Part II, and Part III – A Passion for Public Service with Rafael Baptista Simply from reading the news, one can easily infer that our communities (locally, regionally, and nationally) face critical decisions regarding our future. Amid this backdrop, I made the decision this fall that I was going to pursue a MasterRead… Read more »