Intelligence gathering permeates every capture activity. It not only overlaps with the first capture aspect—knowing your customer—but is part and parcel of everything that drives capture – since the best informed wins! Basically, Intelligence Gathering is research and detective work—you painstakingly collect little pieces of the puzzle and put together as complete of a pictureRead… Read more »
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The Future of Branding is About Making Friends, Not Ads
Make friends, not ads.™ That’s the message that greeted me when I first opened the Cramer-Krasselt homepage and again when I walked into the lobby for my first interview five months ago. Seemed especially fitting for me as I’ve railed against traditional advertising (“look at me!! come buy my stuff!! Now! Now! Now!”) and traditionalRead… Read more »
Management Plans – Value add or Not?
Do management plans add value or do they just waste time? You’ve been tagged as an expert in project management by your customer and team. There is a requirement to develop a series of management plans under the construct of a program. Someone taps your shoulder and says you have been volunteered to produce oneRead… Read more »
Public Service Recognition Week: A look back at the highs and lows of the Secret Service
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek… where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days… and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and monthsRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: May 11, 2012
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Where Data Meets Decisions. The Pew Internet Research Group has an interesting and important report out about “Just in time information,” which they describe as people using mobile devices to acquire and/or act upon information to address a need or desire that has arisen in the moment. Where Machines Talk to One Another.Read… Read more »
A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop
There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing entire libraries of text, but the Million Monkeys Project by Jesse Anderson may be theRead… Read more »
3 Ways Machine-to-Machine Tech Can Assist Governments
This is a great article on Government M2M Solutions – * Let’s start a conversation…..Is your organization currently using or looking into leveraging M2M Solutions to solve business challenges? * If so…what is the problem you are trying to solve and what kind of M2M technology are you using to solve it? * What doRead… Read more »
How to succeed as a political appointee, Harnessing the power of big data, Ranking local gov’t social media sites
On today’s program for Thursday May 10th, 2012 How to succeed in government leadership — and yes, that includes political leadership. We’ll talk to Paul Lawrence, one of the authors of the new book, Paths to Making a Difference: Leading in Government. Big data — it’s the latest buzz word floating around government. ButRead… Read more »
First Responder R&D, Moving Target Cybersecurity, and More
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate is struggling with matching first responder needs and budget cuts. More here. Senator John McCain once again pushes for a greater role for the Department of Defense in cybersecurity and asks for Gen. Kieth Alexander of CyberRead… Read more »
Keep taking the tablets
Ok, I admit it, I bought an iPad. iPad – also an excuse to show a photo of my dog, Wyn It’s a third generation, or “new iPad”, as Apple insist on referring to it. I was one of the many thousands world-wide who bought the latest shiny thing, the first day it was available:Read… Read more »