| Wednesday, February, 1, 2012 |
Greg Robison
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| Empowered Employees = Efficiency |
| Tags:
Collaboration, Portal
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| Danny Harris, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the U.S. Department of Education, is staying one step ahead of this phenomenon, by being proactive. He has empowered knowledgeable staff with collaborative software tools in the hopes that the department’s user activity will inspire creative and efficient ways to use heavily controlled business processes. |
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| Wednesday, February, 1, 2012 |
Steven P. Bucci
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| Stop the Madness |
| Tags:
Acquisition
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| Do you want to have an impact? Sure you do, but to do it you need to have the courage to address the big issues. Luckily for you, the federal system has numerous big issues that need addressing; old paradigms that are crying out to be broke, particularly the federal acquisition system. Everyone recognizes it is broken. It produces waste, is slow to task (particularly in regard to tech issues), and supports sub-optimal solutions (I am being kind here). |
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| Wednesday, February, 1, 2012 |
Mary Gannon,
Brian Moran
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| Moving to the Cloud - A Training Imperative |
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Cloud, Training
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| The Obama administration has identified cloud computing as a way to achieve savings in IT budgets across federal agencies and to address other challenges that have negatively affected IT implementations and citizen services. Cloud computing is now mandated for federal agencies and the particulars are laid out in the February 2011 “Federal Cloud Computing Strategy,” developed by the White House CIO, Vivek Kundra. |
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| Wednesday, February, 1, 2012 |
Mike Murray
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| Bringing Back Sexy to Information Security |
| Tags:
Cyber Security
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| Information security is largely like the diet and fitness industry: everyone has a new pill or a new gadget, yet the population continues to grow more and more out of shape and obese each year. The solution to the problem is never found in a new pill, surgery or the latest AbCruncher2000; the solution lies in simply being willing to do the hard, unsexy work of going to the gym every day. |
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| Wednesday, February, 1, 2012 |
Eric Anderson
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| Resurrecting Six Sigma |
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Six Sigma
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| With the current administration’s push to do more with less, many agencies are looking for new solutions to achieve their strategic missions. For IT professionals, this can mean fewer servers, slower call centers, or smaller budgets. As Congress continues to make cuts, more than ever CIOs are wondering how they can accomplish their mission? Inevitably we turn to elaborate cost models and organizational charts, of course, but many CIOs are going back to a time tested and proven solution: Lean and Six Sigma practices. |
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