Gadi Ben-Yehuda People are paying to play a game while it’s being written. What are the lessons for government? Perhaps that people are willing to pay for unfinished services provided that their input has an impact on the final product. National Public Radio (NPR) released the results of its Twitter survey. What does the profileRead… Read more »
The extension of provisions which have the capacity to support $14 billion in loans to small businesses: Extending these Recovery loan enhancements – which increase guarantees for SBA’s largest loan program (the 7(a) program) to 90% and reduce fees for the 7(a) and 504 program – has the capacity to support $14 billion in lendingRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda I’m feeling Neighborly – a social network in development that is location-based. I’ll be interested to see it in action. Anyone else giving MediaPost, a new aggregator, a try? So far, I’ve found a few articles I might not have read otherwise. Two ways to be wrong about social media. Newsweek’s “The SadRead… Read more »
Apparently, pretty good, according to Nucleus Research. They recently completed 2 ROI Case Studies of 2 government analytics projects. Both showed impressive results: Alameda Country Social Service Agency’s Social Services Integrated Reporting System (SSIRS) had an ROI of 631% and a payback of 2 months Memphis Police Department’s Blue CRUSH (Criminal Reduction Utilizing Statistical History)Read… Read more »
Been a while since I’ve blogged but it was quite fruitful absence. I spent the time catching up on the latest developments in management including a fascinating book on Process Intelligence. What I like about process intelligence is that it is blending of business process management and business analytics that aids in designing an optimumRead… Read more »
Here are the articles that caught our attention this week: Gadi Ben-Yehuda Of course, no one should miss my incredibly insightful and unfathomably well-written post “Meeting Half-way: Becoming Citizen 2.0.” But other people published material that you should read. Check out: Center for Democracy and Technology – Your Great Granddaddy Had Syphilis And Now EveryoneRead… Read more »
A proposal manager’s role is clear when a proposal lasts 30 days, or even 14, but things get more complicated as the allotted time shrinks. Many wonder what kind of value they could provide as a proposal manager when a proposal is only 5-7 days in duration. In most cases, process as we know itRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda: Eye on FDA: A Look at FDA’s Transparency Bloomberg: SEC’s New Jersey Fraud Case Seen as Harbinger in Muni Crackdown This week I seemed to find news about transparency (the good cop to accountability’s bad cop) in unlikely places. Or at least places I don’t normally look. The first is Mark Senak’s blog,Read… Read more »
We have had a wonderful winning streak in the past year and a half winning literally every proposal we ran, but all of a sudden, our fortunes turned. A new client engaged us to help them prepare a proposal. They agreed to provide to us some key inputs such as subject matter expertise, raw pastRead… Read more »
I work on a data warehouse and my city’s main anti-poverty agency. The data warehouse has been around since 2000. We have roughly 150 users across the agency writing their own ad hoc queries each month, many of them using Oracle Discoverer. (We also have about 250 other users running canned reports each month, butRead… Read more »