Challenges to Becoming Data-Driven
Government agencies face three major challenges to becoming data-driven organizations: silos and lack of alignment, technology gaps and an inability to derive value from this data deluge.
OPM Starts Assessing Pay Grades of Federal Employees
Assessment of federal employees’ pay grades has already begun at OPM. The review will consider locality and other pay grades that have been adjusted to higher levels
Maximizing Employee Engagement in the Public Sector
Leading others in the public sector offers a different set of challenges than traditional business environments.
Combating California Breaches with Multi-Factor Authentication
California is the king of innovation, from the earliest ventures in filmmaking to today’s Silicon Valley technologies. So it’s not surprising that California has been at the vanguard of cybersecurity, being the first state to enact a breach data notification law in 2003.
Want a Reward? Win an Award
Does your department do amazing work, yet you feel like there’s rarely any acknowledgement of your accomplishments? What about your team? Your boss? Or you?
Back to Basics: State and Local Gov Edition
Need to brush up on your state and local government facts? Check out this quick primer for the basics on the structures, workforce, budgets, and technology.
Leveraging Behavioral Science to Drive Behavior Change
How can government actually effect change and convince people to do the things they need them to do?
Automating Access Controls for Better Security
According to Scott Carlson of BeyondTrust, a privileged access management and vulnerability management solutions provider, these federal initiatives fall short of truly protecting government IT from credential misuse.
A World Of Pure Imagination
Learning professionals in government should not let a treasure like the library go to waste.
Millennial Spotlight: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Bird Man
Concerned that working for the government means sitting at a boring desk job all day? Curious if there are public sector jobs that take you into the field? Look no further than this govie who is breaking up misperceptions of the government workforce one bird species at a time.