How to Get BUY-IN for New Ideas Why do smart people reject good ideas? What common mistakes squash new ideas?How do you make it safe for others to engage in your ideas?How do you gain ACCEPTANCE for new ideas? Executive instructors Joel Barker, futurist, filmmaker, author, andDebbe Kennedy, author, president and founder, Global Dialogue CenterRead… Read more »
Ogilvy Worldwide and Netvibes developed this tool in January, although I discovered it today. Selection of RSS feeds evidently is customizable if one sets up an account on Netvibes. This could be the best English-language aggregation of Word of Mouth marketing sources. I think studying these sources can help us motivate employees to engage inRead… Read more »
The 2010 World eParliament Report is now available. The report — produced by the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament — presents the results of a 2009 survey “of 264 chambers of unicameral and bicameral parliaments in 188 countries and [] two regional parliaments. 134 responses were received […].” The survey addressed six aspects ofRead… Read more »
Originally posted on www.andrewdwelch.com at http://www.andrewdwelch.com/2010/06/memorial-day-reflection-that-our-flag.html. One stone wall of the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC is home to a quote for which we have General George Marshall to be thankful. “We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world as aRead… Read more »
The widespread increase of multiple award contracts (MACs) have made the Office of Federal Procurement Policy thinking so as to cut the contract spending and move more work in-house. These administrative efforts are the result of several agencies, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security planningRead… Read more »
So I was reading a bunch of Harvard Business Review articles this weekend and thought I’d share my notes. 1. Gardner, John W. “The Road to Self-Renewal.” Stanford Alumni Magazine. March 1994: 32-35. This was a great article written by an 80-year old who had been in numerous cabinet level gov’t positions, CEO positions forRead… Read more »
It was almost two weeks ago that the Prime Minister asked me to join the new coalition Government as Minister for Europe at the Foreign Office. Within two hours I was in my new office meeting my staff and planning briefings… Thus David Lidington, the new minister for Europe in Britain’s coalition government begins hisRead… Read more »
Data doesn’t make decisions; people do. Data can inform decisions. I say this in response to the person who told me this week that performance measurement, like accountability, “only works on paper”. Well, if your performance measurement strategy only works on paper, than it isn’t working at all. Here are a number of factors aboutRead… Read more »
Last week Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra release his report on the “State of Public Sector Cloud Computing”. The report not only details Federal budget guidance issued to agencies to foster the adoption of cloud computing, but it also describes 30 illustrative case studies at the Federal, state and local government level. As statedRead… Read more »
Today, Granicus, Inc. released a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to provide government agencies at the local, state, and federal level the tools they need to manage and broadcast rich-media online and engage citizens in the democratic process in new ways. Additionally, it’s now offering five new application suites which can be added to the platformRead… Read more »