Maximizing the Value of Research and Development – A Simple Case Study
One agency took a new approach to create near and long term value in their research and development efforts. Can this approach help you transform how you conduct R&D?
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FDA vs. USDA: What’s the Difference?
Everything you eat is regulated by a government agency. The question is, which one?
Jargon Is a Barrier: Why It’s Important to Keep It Simple
Jargon has an appropriate audience and is better used as a quick form of communication with the right people than as a display of expertise around the wrong people.
Deciding Who Decides, and Doors: The Decision-Maker Conundrum
The general rule of great delegators is to push decision-making authority to the lowest level possible within an organization. Reason being, that is where the best information lives to inform that decision. However, real life is not so simple.
Designing an Internship That Works
If you are tasked with creating a program for your organization, some design basics can help you create an internship program that works.
The Benefits of Social Media for Local Government
By and large, social media in some form is a part of the life of the public. Local government is in a perfect spot to embrace the power of this disruptive and highly-used platform.
How to Become More Aware in Workplace Situations
Situations of all kinds are sure to knock on our door daily. Situations can be defined as a set of circumstances in which we find ourselves. It is our state of affairs. Situations, positive and negative, occur in our personal and professional life – no one is immune to them. No one stands above experiencingRead… Read more »
How to Handle a Career Setback
At any given time in your career, you will experience a career setback. How you respond to these setbacks determines and defines your career.
The Next Frontier of Smart Cities: Intelligent Communities
What makes a community intelligent? How is it different from a smart city?
Pushing Category Management Forward: 4 Practical Next Steps
In the spring of 2018, OMB released a memo instructing agencies on steps they need to take to comply with the White House’s Category Management initiative. Here’s what agencies should do.