The United States federal government operates in a period rife with significant, seemingly intractable challenges, including an evergrowing federal deficit, economic uncertainty, unemployment, and an aging infrastructure. These challenges go to the core of effective public management. As Don Kettl notes in Reflections on 21st Century Government Management, many problems faced by government allow littleRead… Read more »
This is 4 years old almost, but I thought still interesting. The MIT Sloan Management Review in the Fall of 2008 identified six lessons from studying M&;A activity: Reduce role ambiguity – You may have several managers with previously overlapping duties, clear up who does what. This helps reduce attrition. Due diligence is a mustRead… Read more »
This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: In this premium episode we are going to continue to develop project leadership skills. But not just anybody’s skills. We are focusing on what you and I can do as project leaders in order to enable our own project teams to take more leadership responsibilities. After all,Read… Read more »
A recent Buffalo News article highlighted the fact that no one has been checking employee suggestion boxes for the Town of Amherst, NY. As stated in the article: At a recent Amherst Town Board work session, Council Member Steven Sanders introduced a resolution clarifying that it’s the supervisor’s responsibility to periodically check the several woodenRead… Read more »
Federal Computer Week ran an interesting article recently on the many ideas and suggestions for improving the IT acquisition process. Their report was the result of the “Smarter Federal IT Initiatives: High Quality, Cost-Effective and On-Time” event sponsored by the Association of Management Consulting Firms in March. This event, featuring a panel of subject-matter experts,Read… Read more »
Measuring the effectiveness of your social media effort: Or answering the really tough questions from people who are a little bit nervous about social media. At the recent LocalGovCamp, I was asked to present a session on performance management for social media. This is a little like performance managing telephone use. Yes, you can measureRead… Read more »
The 80/20 rule by @willperrin The 80/20 rule is something I’ve written about elsewhere – and yet somehow, in trying to share learning with others, I’ve once again missed the point myself. 80% of everything I do should be task drive, objective focused, performance indicator measured and efficiency motivated. My problem thus far this yearRead… Read more »
*This is a cross post of my entry on the Government Transformation Blog hosted by Phase One Consulting* The Institute of Public Relation’s 2nd Annual Strategic Communications Summit’s theme, “Communicating in an Era of Radical Transparency” seemed irresistible in light of recent events from the Arab Spring to Weinergate but I was a little skepticalRead… Read more »
The SLA Division of Government Information was the lead division for the Monday, June 13, 2011 SLA spotlight program: Stephen Abram Looks to the Future: Getting Out In Front of the Curve. Here are a few takeaways from the program: 20th Century versus 21st Century solutions: Inventory and collections vs. content access Buildings vs. bricksRead… Read more »
South Korea’s National Institute of Environmental Research is housed within a “carbon-zero” office building. The building is filled with passive and active energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies that power the building, control heat loss and manage the amount of sunlight that comes into the building, among other functions. The Institute’s building is perhaps SouthRead… Read more »