Last week, we launched a new GovLoop guide, How to Find, Land, Keep, and Leap in Your Government Career. In the guide, there are a lot of tips on how to navigate your government career and rise to the top. While most of these tips apply to the communications professional, I thought I’d build onRead… Read more »
Here are today’s federal IT and cybersecurity stories and links: Tami Johnson, program manager for Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, explains that a fast acquisition of information technology will not always work. More here. The State and Defense Department are engaging in joint cyber war games with their Chinese counterparts. More here. The Obama administration expressedRead… Read more »
The House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on public buildings got serious with GSA officials yesterday, issuing threats if the agency doesn’t clean up its act. Members of the subcommittee claim they have been blocked from receiving budget figures, and Chairman Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) didn’t hide his frustration, saying: “Let me just issue a warning …Read… Read more »
How Mature is your Finance Organization? By Steve Watson, CPA, CGFM IBM Public Sector Financial Management In 2005, I published a whitepaper upon the 15th Anniversary of the CFO Act entitled Federal Financial Management, The End of the Beginning (http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/imc/pdf/wp-cfo-act.pdf). In that paper, I included a Financial Management Maturity Model reproduced in the table below.Read… Read more »
When accounting for the costs (both real costs, such as time taken to select and recruit a replacement, and also opportunity costs, such as lost productivity), the cost of employee turnover to organizations has been estimated to be up to 150% of the employees’ remuneration package. In the case of the public sector can, orRead… Read more »
Posted in the 4/17/2012 edition of FedSmith, Ian Smith shared the Senate’s Budget Committee’s plan. Speaking on the plan, the committee chairman said he would “begin a Budget Committee markup of a long-term budget for the nation. As my Chairman’s Mark, I will lay down the bipartisan Fiscal Commission plan, also known as the Bowles-SimpsonRead… Read more »
Stan Soloway, president and chief executive officer of the Professional Services Council (PSC), wrote a piece recently about the issues defense contractors face and the tough times that lay ahead for industry as the federal budgets continue to shift and shrink. Mr. Soloway’s piece was in conjunction with the PSC’s recent Marketview 2012 conference, andRead… Read more »
Engaging your team, answering the WHY career question and a look at DOE’s mentoring program by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Wednesday April 18th, 2012 How do you engage your employees when they are distracted — like they are now. Tom Fox of the Partnership for Public Service has some ideas. When it comesRead… Read more »
The SEVEN government stories you need to know for Wednesday April 18, 2012: 21 — that’s the number of prostitutes federal investigators say the Secret Service brought back to their hotel room in Colombia. The Washington Post says 11 Secret Service and nine military personnel are suspected of the misconduct that took place in advanceRead… Read more »
One question I was asked at the last Social Media Surgery was – could I say something about employers access to employees Facebook accounts. Yes I can. There has been a trend in the US of employers asking to have access to employees Facebook accounts. This has gone so far that Facebook have reacted toRead… Read more »