The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation was created by Congress to help transform the Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP programs to deliver better healthcare, better health and reduced costs through improvement. The Center has created an interesting Innovation Advisors Program with the goal of creating a network of experts in improving the delivery system forRead… Read more »
ULI Richmond Urban Innovation Fund SeriesThe Real Richmond – Part One – The Region’s Changing Housing NeedsFebruary 17th @ 7:30 am “The Richmond Chapter of the Urban Land Institute is launching a three-part series examining the impact of the region’s changing demographics. “Projected population shifts will have a dramatic impact on our region’s resources fromRead… Read more »
With customers and relationships the question is: what had you done for me lately? Good customers are approached often by other providers or discover interesting offerings on the internet. Good relationships are fouled by lack of attention. Thus the spoken or implied questions about what’s recent. I heard a story about an individual who hiredRead… Read more »
Everyone has war stories, observations and experiences working in or dealing with government agencies or departments. These aren’t necessarily whinges or complaints, they may be positive or learning experiences, or examples of where small changes could lead to large productivity gains. Previously there was’t really any way to share these stories, except by speaking withRead… Read more »
press release Feb. 7, 2012, 6:59 a.m. EST Sprint Partners with Orange Business Services to Extend Global M2M Reach Sprint business customers will now be able to more easily take their operations global, reduce complexity by working with a single point of contact to provide a unified, end-to-end offering for all domestic and international connectivityRead… Read more »
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — We’re very interested in tech-savvy entrepreneurs here at Publicyte, and occasionally we’re just going to toss out what we think is a good idea for a startup affecting the public and civic sector. In the Feb. 2012 Wired, there’s a terrific interview with innovative doctor Eric Topol, a genomics professorRead… Read more »
A great series of questions came into my email inbox the other day from Shelly, who just discovered me and pmStudent. Shelly: Are these video’s for PM’s that had the schooling and are now ready to begin their career? If so, how much education would one need for your system to at it’s most helpful?Read… Read more »
The City of Philadelphia wants to hire an efficiency expert. The Nutter administration issued a request for proposals soliciting qualified firms to submit credentials to become an “Overhead Cost and Revenue Collection Consultant” to deal with multiple city agencies. Philly.com News reports: “On the cost side, the city is looking for an outside analysis ofRead… Read more »
I’ve become the designated “social media guy” for a massive organization (25,000+ people). For a while, the responsibilities of this role consisted primarily of explaining what the Twitters were and why people cared about what you ate for lunch. As social media has grown in popularity, so too has the internal and external demand forRead… Read more »
Lapidus is an Analytics Dashboard we developed in response to our desire to track metrics for all of our projects, whether they are web sites, APIs, mobile apps, etc. Sunlight has multiple projects that target different audiences and have different uses, but it is important for us to understand how all of these projects areRead… Read more »