As corporate and government leaders we depend on data and historical trends to make sense of today’s economy. We look at quarterly performance, study charts of changing sales numbers, analyze trends in housing prices, and examine the number of new jobs created last month. Unfortunately, much of the data has been disappointing, or worse, veryRead… Read more »
With the creation of the ‘Texts from Hillary‘ photoblog on tumblr, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received a massive public relations boost this past week. The images show a hip Clinton texting celebrities and politicians, from Jay-Z and Mark Zuckerberg to Romney and Obama. However, the source of Clintons image, Diane Walker -working for TIMERead… Read more »
The role, impact and usefulness of the “Solution Architect” (i.e. “SA”; to the “Enterprise Architect” or “System Architect”) has been clarifying for several years across the IT Consulting community, particularly given the increasingly complex nature of SOA, Cloud-centric and Multi-Platform solutions required to meet increasingly real-time, agile and resource-constrained business information management requirements. The SA’sRead… Read more »
The GSA conference scandal is bad for GSA and bad for government in general. Lavish spending in a time of extreme budget cuts doesn’t help anyone. But there are some lessons to be learned. Tom Fox is the Vice President for Leadership and Innovation at PPS. He’s compiled his list of the seven things allRead… Read more »
One of the scariest parts of being an IT decision-maker is the risk that the solutions you pick will fail or not perform as you believed they would when you bought them. And, sometimes, the time it takes to design and deploy means the solution is deployed just as it becomes obsolete. In government’s currentRead… Read more »
As one of the true leaders in our nation’s defense or as I like to call it, the “Apple” of our Nation’s defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is an organization that has shown the ability to be a starting and finishing point in terms of career progression with the federal government. DISA has anRead… Read more »
Below is a current article discussing the merits of obtaining a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) certificate for professionals in the Emergency and Crisis Management fields. In establishing the certification process the IAEM created a standard body of knowledge for emergency managers, then set requirements for them to meet to become certified. The certifications have evolved,Read… Read more »
Would “virtual agencies” be an effective alternative to traditional structural reorganization initiatives? If so, what needs done to make them happen? When Vice President Gore’s reinventing government team was being formed in the early 1990s, he encouraged it to not focus on reorganizing agencies and programs, but rather to fix what’s inside the agencies. HeRead… Read more »
One of the lessons learned from me about leadership is that you are constantly evolving as a leader. Taking some time to reflect back on your leadership style and if you are having the intended results is critical to leadership. Another lesson learned that is that often people focus on making a distinction between “managing”Read… Read more »
As a lifelong student of leadership, I enjoy looking at the events that capture national attention and examining what they say about who we are as a society and how we are leading in our lives. It seems nothing is as riveting as the Affordable Care Act’s three-days at the Supreme Court. The debate overRead… Read more »