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Look For The Red Flags of ‘Rogue’ Employees Before You Hire Them

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For those tasked with managing risk throughout the enterprise, and who follow my blog postings, you’re familiar with a theme I stress often regarding information security best practices: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

For practitioners and managers tasked with enterprise risk management, you can apply this approach to all your decision-making, whether you’re looking to make new technology purchases, implement new policies, and, perhaps most importantly, hiring new people. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 12, 2012 at 1:30 PM

Senior Executive Talent Underutilized In Federal Government

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A new report released today by the Partnership for Public Service provides fresh perspective on the long standing failure of the federal government to take advantage of its Senior Executive Service and a cadre of more than 7,800 senior leaders many of whom find themselves trapped in the agencies they work for.

The report, “Mission-Driven Mobility,” outlines barriers that SES members face in being able to move from one agency to another, and even within agencies, as intended when the SES was created by Congress in 1978 as a way to spread the experience of senior executives to improve the broader management of government. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 29, 2012 at 9:53 AM

GAO Report Finds Government Inefficiencies, Encourages Action

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A GAO report to Congress has identified several areas where the government duplicates efforts, creating unnecessary costs and inefficiencies, but also reflects an improvement over last year.

The 2012 Duplicative Program Report, recently released by the Government Accountability Office, identified 51 areas “where programs may be able to achieve greater efficiencies or become more effective in providing government services.” Keep reading →

 /  Published February 28, 2012 at 4:00 PM

Federal Mobility Plan Takes Shape; Need For Greater Integration

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Federal information technology officials are on a mission to hammer out a new, more coherent strategy for using mobile technology in government by the end of next month. But already, they are beginning to conclude that parallel efforts focused on outward-facing citizen services and inward-focused workforce productivity opportunities must be viewed increasingly from a larger, more integrated perspective, according to Richard Holgate.

Holgate, CIO and assistant director for science and technology for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is playing a lead role in developing a new “federal mobility strategy” announced last month by U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel during the Consumer Electronics Show. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 23, 2012 at 3:40 PM

Mobility Takes On High Profile Among Feds

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Mobile technology will clearly take a higher profile role as federal leaders develop IT plans in the coming year, but it was clear from several who spoke on the topic Thursday that strategies vary widely between agencies.

Speakers at a mobile government summit at the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C., said mobility plans must be integrated into ongoing efforts rather than evolving as a separate entity. (See related story, “Federal Mobility Plan Takes Shape.”) Keep reading →

 /  Published February 23, 2012 at 3:00 PM

How DHS Plan Has Potential To Transform Federal HR Systems

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Recently, the Department of Homeland Security reached a milestone in the effort to implement functionally-oriented information technology portfolios that support the department’s mission and business functions: The completion of an architecture to manage our human resources systems, called the Human Capital Segment Architecture (HCSA).

It will be our model for conducting segment enterprise architectures for other mission and business functions going forward. HCSA promises to guide real and lasting transformation in our human capital organization. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM

No Easy Option: Absorbing Budget Reductions Intelligently

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Today the public sector operates in an environment of shrinking budgets. That was certainly apparent in the latest federal budget proposal released this week and the new realities for federal spending agency officials now find themselves.

To meet budget caps and reduction targets, Congress, the White House, and federal departments often use across-the-board percentage reductions. This blunt instrument achieves broad goals without prescribing the specific activities to take the reduction. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 14, 2012 at 3:02 PM

Defense CIO Teri Takai Pushes For Balanced Mobility Strategy

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For Teri Takai, the key to overseeing cybersecurity for the world’s largest defense organization is striking a delicate balance between enabling mobility and safe-guarding information that is often crucial to national security. In her role as the Department of Defense’s chief information officer, she must also convince a widely diverse group of constituents that a shared approach is best.

DOD has always had a highly mobile workforce, but the proliferation of mobile devices is radically altering the department’s already challenging security environment.
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 /  Published February 7, 2012 at 10:45 AM

New Public Printer Continues Digital Direction

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On a recent chilly morning inside the tall brick building where America’s official information has been printed and stored for 150 years, Davita Vance-Cooks began shaking hands with the 1,900 employees she’s now in charge of leading through a technological transformation.

A few got warm hugs or pats on the shoulder. It’s clear Vance-Cooks is no stranger in this crowd. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 31, 2012 at 4:00 PM

A Key Ingredient Behind Government Employee Satisfaction

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Measuring leadership — and identifying federal agencies that breed effective leaders–has rarely been a simple undertaking. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 20, 2012 at 2:54 PM
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