VA Healthcare Innovators Nominations Due March 2

From the Virginia BioTech Association enewsletter:“In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery is more important than ever. The healthcare industry must therefore foster and encourage progress and creativity. The 2012 Virginia Healthcare Innovators Awards co-sponsored by the Virginia Biotechnology Association (VABIO) honors Virginia providers and organizations/entities that haveRead… Read more »

VA Healthcare Innovators Nominations Due March 2

From the Virginia BioTech Association enewsletter: “In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery is more important than ever. The healthcare industry must therefore foster and encourage progress and creativity. The 2012 Virginia Healthcare Innovators Awards co-sponsored by the Virginia Biotechnology Association (VABIO) honors Virginia providers and organizations/entities thatRead… Read more »

White House Perfects Its Reach To The YouTube Generation

The Obama Administration has arguably become one of the most adept administrations in history at harnessing new media technologies to take its case directly to the American public. How the White House takes advantage of new media can be seen in several White House videos posted on YouTube in the past week. The first isRead… Read more »

Teachings from a Bag of Potato Chips

While on a brief respite from our everyday world, my partner and I spent a couple of afternoons sitting outside a café drinking coffee, talking, writing, and enjoying the scenery. On the second day, I sipped strong coffee while watching an interesting scene unfold. After throwing away her trash and gathering her belongings, a youngRead… Read more »

Jobs Analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union, 2012 by a Federal Jobs Consultant

I analyzed SOTA for all remarks, plans, legislation, ideas to support JOBS and TRAINING and EDUCATION in the US for 2012. I came up with 11 major points that were made. I wrote this: “The initiatives described in the State of the Union may or may not be offering you real jobs today. “ ReadRead… Read more »

To Make Government Cheaper You Need To Understand Its Main Cost Drivers

This part four of a four post series regarding Ken Miller’s great book Extreme Government Makeover. In Part 1 we learned that government is like a house in that most of the important work goes on in pipes hidden from public view behind walls. The problem with improving the performance of government does not lieRead… Read more »

Catbird’s vSecurity 5.0

While virtualization offers many benefits to enterprise such as lower costs and greater flexibility, it also creates new challenges. One of the greatest concerns with switching over to virtualized infrastructure, espeically in government, is security and compliance in a complex and dynamic environment which legacy software can no longer handle. Catbird offers automated security solutionsRead… Read more »

Catbird’s vSecurity 5.0

Tweet While virtualization offers many benefits to enterprise such as lower costs and greater flexibility, it also creates new challenges. One of the greatest concerns with switching over to virtualized infrastructure, espeically in government, is security and compliance in a complex and dynamic environment which legacy software can no longer handle. Catbird offers automated securityRead… Read more »

Monetary Bonus Incentives Make Knowledge Workers Less Effective (or, Give ’em a Fricken Innovation Bonus!)

I have found this to be true in my own experience. The way to really engage teams and get them motivated to do great things is to empower them, build trust with them, and help them recognize they are awesome and doing awesome things. I got a bonus in my paycheck this year. Meh. ItRead… Read more »

Studying and Learning from Bureaucracy

As a government worker you will always be a student of bureaucracy–it is the organizational architecture that defines what we know, what we can do, and what we can affect. Bureaucracy is your work life–understand it well. When we have the opportunity to manage bureaucracy we give a lot of attention to how we canRead… Read more »

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VA Healthcare Innovators Nominations Due March 2

VA Healthcare Innovators Nominations Due March 2

Teachings from a Bag of Potato Chips

Jobs Analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union, 2012 by a Federal Jobs Consultant

To Make Government Cheaper You Need To Understand Its Main Cost Drivers

Catbird’s vSecurity 5.0

Catbird’s vSecurity 5.0

Monetary Bonus Incentives Make Knowledge Workers Less Effective (or, Give ’em a Fricken Innovation Bonus!)

Studying and Learning from Bureaucracy

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