Meet MEP at a Recruitment Conference or Tradeshow
Keep checking our Events page to see the trade shows and recruitment events that MEP will be attending or exhibiting in 2011. We hope to meet you soon!
Fostering Social Innovation through Open Government
This article, ‘Fostering Innovation through Open Government‘, from Aneesh Chopra the US Chief Technology Officer, is a great snapshot of the link between new technologies and open models and the policy benefits they will drive. In this case he focuses on the topic important to us all, economic development through innovation. This kind of linkRead… Read more »
Bragging Rights
You can also read this post on BeltWiki Blog by WhoRunsGov Washingtonians are notorious (mostly amongst ourselves) for talking about ourselves. Our affinity for self-promotion was noted earlier this year when the District was dubbed the most socially-networked city by Men’s Health magazine. Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook are great channels for telling our friends andRead… Read more »
SOA-UX, Services-Oriented User Experience Design Architecture
During a recent solution strategy session for a very large enterprise, a need developed for creating visual prototypes and simulations illustrating the end-state of the enterprise system to be built. The system, or really “solution” (since the ROI would be derived not only from IT, but also from organization change, process re-engineering, physical and digitalRead… Read more »
Paradigm Shift #2 – from Centralized to Distributed Knowledge Management
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the shift from a ‘push’ to a ‘pull’ information economy. The same forces are also changing the nature of knowledge management (KM) – replacing a model in which KM was an activity that was centralized in terms of time, personnel, and location, to a highly distributed activity. ThisRead… Read more »
Daily Dose: Which Matters More, The Game Plan Or The Coach?
Walter Pincus of the Washington Post brought up a darn good question earlier this week: Which is more important, the person(ality) at the top of your organization or the way it’s structured? In many ways, this brings to mind the old debate about a coach’s job. Is it to motivate players, inspire them, help eachRead… Read more »
Organizational Development Challenges – The Results Are In!
As many of you know, we recently conducted a survey on the Top Ten Organizational Development Challenges employees are facing in 2011. After surveying over 300 clients, consultant and partners over the course of six months, the results are in! In order from the most pressing to the least challenging, the list below contains theRead… Read more »
The Federal Coach: Dealing with Your Workplace Debbie Downer
When working in a team environment, how do you deal with a consistent dissenter who is vocal about what has not worked in the past? – Federal manager (GS-15) from the Department of Education It can be hard to inspire a team when you’re faced with dissension from another team member. In fact, their negativityRead… Read more »
We’re Hiring: Help Us Tell Our Story
Elsewhere you’d be given a product to market, or maybe even a brand. You’d be given goals like tailoring messaging for an audience segment, optimizing a landing page, or increasing market share 0.001%. And, sure, here you’ll be able to do all of that. Our team will be rolling out new and innovative products everyRead… Read more »
May flowers: the social media CoP roundup
Some exciting stuff going on right now! Baroness Hanham from the Department of Communities and Local Government is hosting an online discussion on how councils and the voluntary sector can work more closely together. Has there been enough in the mix about digital collaboration? Runs through the 26th – check it out. Representatives from DemenShareRead… Read more »