Communities of Practice (CoP) are popping up everywhere in my agency. What seemed to me to be a novel approach to learning, sharing and leading, I have discovered is an aged old phenomenon that stems from learning theory. Cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger coined the term “community of practice” when studying apprenticeships asRead… Read more »
While the technology that agencies buy has changed considerably in recent years, the process of buying it, not so much. So just as government IT faces modernization, the procurement of government IT needs to modernize, too.
Think about the large digital displays agencies use to direct visitors and share information with employees. While not traditional devices, these displays must still be protected.
The federal government has long encouraged use of small businesses and is making a greater effort to incorporate racial equity in that endeavor. But there can be challenges when small businesses team up with large firms to deliver on a contract. Here are tips to make the partnerships work better.
Authentication factors don’t govern security; the authentication infrastructure determines security. So what’s with all the “killing passwords” talk?
We can compare our view of life to a camera lens. What can we do to expand that lens and re-assess our view of what’s really going on?
There’s nothing more transparent than raw data. But that’s not accessible to people. That’s where data visualization comes in. Increasingly, users expect data to be something they can see, not just read.
New technology helps agencies deliver better customer service and improve their operations. All that advancement, though, comes at a cost: It makes things more complex.
When North Carolina’s Department of Information Technology went remote in 2020, CIO Jim Weaver learned how to foster collaboration within a hybrid workforce.
Semiconductor supply chain shortages demonstrate how one small thing can be a single point of failure that negatively impacts an entire organization — but we should not accept such risks.
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