Quality and Consistency

The point of this post: Many quality management frameworks seem to be about ensuring consistency – especially in process. I’m not sure the two are as closely connected as these frameworks would have us believe. [I posted this on my blog on OPSpedia, at work, about a month ago. I just noticed that I hadn’tRead… Read more »

Threaded Environments: changing the way we work

In our summer 2010 issue, Marnie Green, principle consultant of the Management Education Group, wrote about the growing trends that are changing the public workforce and dictating not only who we hire, but how we work. These four trends are: 1. Threaded Environments2. Self-Reliance3. Knowledge Sharing4. Portability Threaded environments require the development of internal andRead… Read more »

Anna Kournikova Allova Again: New Worm Underscores Need for Greater Cyber Awareness

In early 2001 a computer worm sent via email with the subject line “Here you have” created havoc for hundreds of thousands of Internet users. The malicious email promised recipients a file attachment containing a photo of tennis player Anna Kournikova. But when users clicked on the file to open it, they inadvertently executed codeRead… Read more »

FCC Releases API for License Data

The U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has released application programming interfaces (APIs) for four of its data collections, including FCC licensing data, through the License View API. Respecting the licensing data, the Commission’s instructional page says: The FCC issues licenses for use of the nation’s airwaves and other purposes. License View API provides snapshots suchRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – September 10, 2010

Standards make the world go ’round: Curt Hopkins: Civic Commons Helps Municipalities Share Code Arindam Mukherjee: Open standards is at hand as the main e-governance platform (India) Steve Ressler: The War of Online vs. Offline Gunnar Hellekson: The government doesn’t look good naked Lewis Shepherd: Contributing to Intelligence Innovation Matt Stiles: Visualizing Foreign Business inRead… Read more »