This week, Deltek released its latest report, State of the States 2012: IT Initiatives and Implications. The 32-page presentation offers in-depth analysis of 43 governors’ state-of-the-state (or budget) addresses to identify key trends and priorities for the year ahead. An extensive Excel table detailing more than 750 state goals across 11 vertical markets is alsoRead… Read more »
Today I will be live blogging at the Cisco Government Solutions Forum. Session number two was titled, New Models for Government IT, which was part of the Cutting the Cost of Government track. Learning how to cut costs will continue to be a pressing issue for government. This session explores how technology can be usedRead… Read more »
Bullying in the Workplace and Making Mobility Work by GovLoop Insights Happy Wednesday March 21st 2012… So much to get to today!!! Happy Wednesday… SO much to get to today. On Tuesday, the House Republicans unveiled their version of the fiscal 2013 budget. There is a lot of stuff in there, as you might imagine.Read… Read more »
Recently, I was in an auditorium waiting for a distinguished lecturer. He came out to a standing ovation, and when everyone was seated, said: “Your applause is humbling; an hour ago my 14-year old daughter told me in no uncertain terms that I was cruel, unreasonable, and didn’t know anything about anything.” A few weeksRead… Read more »
Deltek Principal Analyst Jason Sajko reports. Deltek has been tracking and working to improve state and local government purchasing for more than 10 years. To celebrate National Purchasing Month, we have provided analysis of different procurement strategies, expenditure reviews (and another), and now we take a look at 2011’s nationwide state and local government procurementRead… Read more »
Today I will be live blogging at the Cisco Government Solutions Forum. The session I just attended, Establishing Trust Within the Enterprise and Beyond, is part of the Managing Risks in a Dynamic Network Environment track. This track explores security and identifies that managing risks is always part of the conversation on technology. One ofRead… Read more »
It seem like everyone in government is either talking about the saving virtues of mobility or the death of security. Bring your own device or protect your networks. Either way, there’s a lot of talk going on but not a lot of actual solutions. So when Chris Dorobek moderated the AFFIRM Panel on Mobility heRead… Read more »
Today marks the 6th birthday of Twitter — the now ubiquitous collaboration platform where people share 140 characters of information. It was on On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Tweet. I remember when I first got on Twitter 23,476 tweets ago… I didn’t get it. And while many of us areRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Evan Halperin reports. Two weeks ago, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) issued a request for information (RFI) for social media management platforms. The IEMA seeks information regarding integrating and pushing content to multiple social media services, tracking conversations with the ability to respond, and monitoring multiple social media services with analytics capabilities.Read… Read more »
Deltek Senior Analyst Kate Tussey reports. As Deltek continues recognizing National Social Work Month, we also have to acknowledge some of the IT failures plaguing the human services arena. When these health and social services systems are unsuccessful, you can be sure the issue will be splashed across the next day’s headlines. Failed IT systemsRead… Read more »