President Obama and Vice President Biden launch the Campaign to Cut Waste, which will identify and and eliminate misspent tax dollars in every agency and department across the Federal Government.
The President signed an Executive Order on June 13, 2011 establishing the Campaign to Cut Government Waste which includes two key initiatives: Keep reading →
Government agencies are going mobile and learning their share of lessons. Scott Orr, mobile content editor at the State Department, has been guiding the department’s mobile website since launching it more than a year ago. And as its worldwide traffic continues to grow, he has gained a number of insights.
“Launching a mobile website is no different than launching a desktop site, it’s all about planning and developing the kind of site that is appropriate for your content and your audience,” Orr says. Keep reading →
This is the second in a series of “Seven Management Imperatives” for government leaders, based on the insights provided by some 300 senior government officials and more than 300 research reports, courtesy of IBM Center of The Business of Government.
The technologies that enable hyperconnectivity can be harnessed, ignored, employed on an ad-hoc basis, or incorporated thoughtfully into an agency’s strategy to carry out its mission. The only thing that leaders and managers cannot do with these technologies is make them go away. Keep reading →
Over the last 13 years, the IBM Center for The Business of Government has published more than 300 research reports and interviewed some 300 senior government executives.
It is from this rich library that we’ve identified several broad societal trends that we believe are changing what it takes to be a successful leader at all levels of government — and which are changing the game for government: Keep reading →