Doing better with less with Code for America, Crafting your Innovator DNA and Measuring Metrics by GovLoop Insights On today’s program… Doing more with less… how about doing more and better with less. That may be possible. And we’ll blow your socks off. We’re going to talk to a person that Government Technology billed atRead… Read more »
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Leadership Is Achieving Outcomes Through Collaboration
Getting things done in government requires working with other levels of government, non-profit organizations etc. Mark Funkhouser as the Director of the Governing Institute (a former Mayor of Kansas City), recently watched Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley conduct a session of StateStat, the process he has implemented to make the state’s government more efficient. As FunkhouserRead… Read more »
5 Obstacles To Making Your Local Government Innovative
In these difficult economic times local governments need to be more innovative in how they operate. Local governments will not be able to cut their way out of their current budget crisis, instead they will have to find ways of delivering services that are smarter, faster and cheaper. Creativity and innovation are needed in localRead… Read more »
Diversity Matters to the Mission
http://www.fedinsider.com State Department veterans remember when the best way to describe their colleagues was “pale, male and Yale.” It wasn’t just State. At most federal departments, at the professional and managerial ranks, you found white men with similar backgrounds. Diversifying – employment, business ownership, contracting, college enrollment – as a movement followed the civil rightsRead… Read more »
Andreessen Horowitz: Investing in, and nurturing, great capabilities for the enterprise
Andreessen Horowitz has a model I have not seen at any other Venture Capital firm, and that model is paying off for a broad ecosystem of companies, investors and enterprise IT professionals. From the standpoint of an enterprise technologist, the payoff will come by their support of firms fielding capabilities that will make a positiveRead… Read more »
Austerity and Innovation: (For/N)ever the Two Shall Meet?
In a recent GovernmentExecutive – Management Matters article, Jeffrey Neal makes a simple (in theory) yet revolutionary (in practice) argument: in this time budget restrictions and making more happen with less resources, leaders are in a perfect position to create innovation in their agencies. On all levels, innovative thinking can create major cost savings: fromRead… Read more »
ESRI Federal User Conference Recap: Plenary Session
This morning I attended the Plenary Session of the ESRI Federal User Conference. The Plenary Session had a great presentation by ESRI President Jack Dangermond and Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes. Jack’s presentation focused on providing an overview of ESRI and presented a vision of future implications for ESRI and GISRead… Read more »
7 Signs Your Local Government Is Dysfunctional
Leadership is about somehow getting people with different views to come together and execute on goals and plans they would never agree to on their own. Clearly, that’s not happening in many local governments. Polarizing leadership and divisive management are real and entirely common issues that destroy organizational effectiveness and ultimately lead to operating failureRead… Read more »
Finding a path to sustainability
Cutting public sector jobs may decrease overall expenditures, but it doesn’t amount to the fundamental change we’ve been talking about, nor does it put us on a path to sustainability. At least that is what the recently released Drummond Report argues: If civil servants and public sector workers want pay raises, they should find theRead… Read more »
GovBytes: Millions of tax-payer dollars saved by Oregon’s use of video-conferencing
As the number of agencies and businesses choosing to host video-conferences rather than in-person meetings grows, so do the savings, as well as the environmental benefits. Oregon has been boosting its video-conference efforts, and has a lot to boast about regarding the benefits of the conferences. In total, it’s estimated that Oregon has saved $2Read… Read more »