Posts Tagged: budgeting

How do you protect your project-focused training investment? Find out the most effective, least expensive way

As agencies grapple with budget shortfalls, learning leaders are looking for ways to make the most of what’s left of their training dollars. Many look to technology, such as blogs, mobile learning, HTML 5 and social media, as a means to stretch each dollar invested. But while these tools may enhance the learning experience, theyRead… Read more »

Daily Dose: House Hearing Criticizes Size and Scope of the TSA

The Transportation Security Administration has been a hot-bed of House GOP criticism for months, most recently noted by the House Homeland Security transportation subcommittee hearing titled “TSA’s Efforts to Fix Its Poor Customer Service Reputation and Become a Leaner, Smarter Agency.” The title was objected to by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.), who claimed thatRead… Read more »

The folly of stretch goals and is a government reboot necessary?

On Today’s DorobekINSIDER Stretch goals — you might be able to guess what they are, but do they work? Click here for the full story. Government needs a reboot. That’s what Mario Morino says. He is one of the keynotes at GovLoop’s Next Generation of Government Training Summit coming up next month, and we’ll talkRead… Read more »

Move to the Cloud, but Keep Your Feet on the Ground: Stay Focused on Business, Not the Technology

At the end of last month, Tri Tuns went to Cloud Slam ’12 in San Francisco where our CEO, Jason Whitehead, was invited to give a presentation about the newest challenges in cloud adoption: the users. As one might expect at a cloud conference, Cloud Slam ’12 leaned heavily toward the technical and many peopleRead… Read more »

Federal Perspective: What a career in and around the federal government looks like

Welcome to a Special Edition of the DorobekINSIDER. Chris Dorobek is currently moderating a panel at Google’s Innovation Nation. Innovation Nation brings together 200 government CIOs to discuss and debate what the future holds for the work of government employees and to help CIOs transform their agencies with technologies that allow their employees to workRead… Read more »

Meet Textizen — A new way to get citizen feedback in the digital age

Welcome to a Special Edition of the DorobekINSIDER. Chris Dorobek is currently in New York City at the Personal Democracy Forum. The two day conference features 135 thought leaders who are at the nexus of technology, politics, government and social advocacy. Now in its ninth year, PDF has grown to become the city’s largest techRead… Read more »

Citizinvestor: Disrupting How Governments Fund Civic Projects

I am thrilled to be involved with an exciting new project called Citizinvestor (currently a candidate for Code for America’s Accelerator) and I couldn’t think of a better place to gain valuable feedback on the soon-to-launch product than right here at GovLoop. As you well know, there are countless local government projects that are notRead… Read more »

Tech talk: Implementing the new Digital Gov’t Strategy and renewed interest in Shared Services

On Today’s Edition of the DorobekINSIDER We’ve spent some time talking about the Obama administration’s Digital Government Strategy. Today, we’re going to talk about how that strategy can get implemented — and I know a lot of agencies are saying they have no money. GSA is hoping to help, and we’ll talk to the personRead… Read more »

Potential Pitfalls of “Shared First”

Shared services — the Obama Administration is pushing its Shared Service Strategy. Share first is aimed at helping agencies improve the return on their IT investments, close productivity gaps and increase communications and collaboration amongst key stakeholders. It’s all part of OMB’s 25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal IT. Greg Bateman is the senior directorRead… Read more »