Project Management

Change Happens—How Do You Manage It?

Change Management is a planned approach to transitioning the people of an organization through a business transformation. A unique problem with the implementation of a new system, program or strategy, is the natural resistance of certain individuals to change of any kind. Frequently, this resistance results from personnel not understanding the issues involved. It isRead… Read more »

Free webinar on how technology can support public sector collaboration

I’m hosting free webinar, thanks to Learning Pool, that will take you through the benefits that technology can bring to collaboration within public services. Covering the main tools and the strategies to implement them, attendees will be able to identify the right solutions to enable them to manage change, talent, knowledge and learning within theirRead… Read more »

Schultze on PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law

Stephen Schultze of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has posted PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Mr. Schultze describes the origins of RECAP, an innovative project to publicly disseminate U.S. federal courtRead… Read more »

What federal government leaders can learn from the Best Companies for Leadership

If you were like me, on January 25 you sat glued to your television for over an hour watching President Barack Obama deliver his second state of the union (SOTU) address. What is abundantly clear after hearing his address is that it will take more than ideological compromises in Congress to win the future forRead… Read more »

Learning and Teaching

My joy in learning is partly in that it enables me to teach.Seneca The above quote is from Seneca the Younger, an early Roman philosopher and statesman. Although he is thought to have made this statement during the early part of the first century AD, the sentiment expressed is as true today as it wasRead… Read more »

VIDEO: Measure snow, help climate change researchers — featuring GovLoop Founder!

This isn’t necessarily government related, but it is mostly definitely GovLoop Founder-related. ScienceforCitizens.net is collaborating with a climate research project at the University of Waterloo called Snow Tweets. To help researchers track climate change, we’re requesting that people find a ruler, go outside, and measure the depth of snow wherever they happen to be. Then,Read… Read more »

Climate Change, Insurance Risk and the Future

This video, which we found through Environmental Leader, is called “How Emissions Growth Effects Business.” But it could just as easily be called “How Climate Inertia Could Strain the Insurance Sector of the Future.” In a brisk two minutes, Nigel Topping, Chief Innovation Officer of Carbon Disclosure Project describes how climate choices we’ve already madeRead… Read more »

Building resiliency and adaptability into the nation’s infrastructure: A conversation with Steve Moddemeyer

According to Steve Moddemeyer, a former senior advisor to Seattle Public Utilities and the city’s Department of Planning and Development, new paradigm shifts in government service delivery and infrastructure management are leading more officials to consider sustainable solutions. In a conversation with Mr. Moddemeyer, he told CivSource that governments can no longer afford to approachRead… Read more »