This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: In this episode we begin what I hope is going to be a great journey here on the program. We are starting “The PM Podcast Project Leadership Series. The idea is that for the rest of 2011, we are going to return again and again to theRead… Read more »
PMLINK 360 is a web development company building web solutions for any industry that can benefit from stakeholder management software. They developed a stakeholder management system to help companies manage stakeholder interaction, increase efficiencies and streamline communications, enabling projects to be delivered on-time, on-budget and in-compliance with industry regulations. They adhere to methodologies based onRead… Read more »
This quote by management guru Peter Drucker is very relevant today. Citizens’ expectations of government have been ratcheted up significantly and utilizing the previously deployed approaches to address constituent’s concerns may no longer be successful. By now you are familiar with the different types of resistors and the strategies that they typically deploy. In theRead… Read more »
I’ve adopted a new practice I want to share with you, because it’s making a real difference in my own life, and maybe it could in yours, too. You know the bumper sticker, “Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty?” The one some people sneer at? Well, the people who made and display thatRead… Read more »
Since I didn’t want to post three new (short) posts in succession, I figured I would lump these together. Anyway most of you are probably either in DC already or in various stages of arrival, so I want to keep this brief and to the point. First, of course, there is the job fair. ARead… Read more »
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded Washington a $1 million grant to integrate the state’s Medicare and Medicaid delivery services. The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services will use the grant to focus on improving service delivery of medical care, behavioral health and long-term care. Washington is one of justRead… Read more »
On Monday, April 4, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a major standards organization, announced two working groups to develop standards for cloud computing. The first, the P2031 Work Group, focuses on “application interfaces, portability interfaces, management interfaces, interoperability interfaces, file formats, and operation conventions” while the second, P2302, works on “topology, functions, andRead… Read more »
LexPop.org is a new wiki-based website that invites participants to collaboratively craft public policy. LexPop’s About page points out that, despite sea-changes in how we communicate with one another, how we seek information and how we are entertained (all due to constant innovation), we make public policy in essentially the same way we always have.Read… Read more »
Watching the budget battle play out these past few weeks (perhaps months and years) between Republicans and Democrats can only leave one feeling deep frustration and a sense that things will never truly change. Those emotions are not only accurate they are the clue to the true reason why deficits are soaring and budgets areRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda CIO Council Launches Best Practices Web site. NextGov reports that a new site has lanuched to help federal IT managers. Social Media at State, Half the World Away. An interesting article on the social media activities of the US State Department in New Zealand. Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith: Now on Video! Last week,Read… Read more »