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Leveraging Lean Six Sigma Through BPM Technology For Faster ROI

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As economic challenges remain across the board, and budget cutting becomes a reality, government organizations are particularly sensitive to implementing new IT programs at minimal cost, and delivering results as quickly as possible, to ensure projects get funded through to completion – and results justify the resource commitments being made.

Lean Six Sigma approaches help ensure efficiency and stakeholder buy-in, and dynamic Business Process Management (BPM) software delivers the results, with deployments often within 6-8 months. We encourage government IT organizations to consider applying this winning technology combination to their next IT project. Marrying Lean Six Sigma with dynamic BPM can ensure stakeholder engagement and real results – fast. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Federal Workers Pledge To Telework

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Despite federal initiatives and myriad benefits of telework, most of Washington remains gridlocked during rush hour.

But that tide could turn soon. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 24, 2012 at 8:00 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

The Battle Against Burgeoning Bureaucracy

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The word ‘bureaucracy’ does not conjure warm, fuzzy feelings for most people; in fact, it’s often considered a dirty word. In government, it seems inevitable. Many larger agencies would not run effectively without hierarchy and rigid structure, which often presents a frustrating set of challenges.

David Paschane, Organizational Architect at the Department of Veterans Affairs and an Associate Research Professor at UMBC, recently brought this issue to the attention of the GovLoop community and pondered why bureaucratization happens in the first place. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM

Five Federal Training Priorities For 2012

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As we enter a new year, with new challenges and opportunities, The American Management Association (AMA) Enterprise Government Solutions has noticed certain trends and recurring topics of interest among our government customers. We’d like to share our top five training tips for 2012 for government training and development organizations:

Government organizations have been moving at different paces to implement telework programs since the passage of the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010. As we move through the winter months, many organizations are implementing lessons learned from last year’s ‘Snowmageddon,’ when telework often made the difference in an organization’s ability to continue to support its mission. An added bonus: surveys confirm that effective telework programs increase employee satisfaction. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 26, 2012 at 10:00 AM

Obama Proposes Government Consolidation To Drive Business

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President Obama called on Congress to reinstate Presidential authority to reorganize and consolidate the federal government in order to drive proposals to streamline government services, focusing first on agencies that serve American businesses.

“We live in a 21stcentury economy, but we’ve still got a government organized for the 20thcentury. Our economy has fundamentally changed – as has the world – but the government has not. The needs of our citizens have fundamentally changed but their government has not,” President Obama said. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 13, 2012 at 4:00 PM

Feds@Work: Building Business And National Security

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Since the end of the Cold War more than 20 years ago, senior civilian and military leaders, our allies and the business community have criticized the nation’s export control system as being unnecessarily cumbersome and counterproductive. Instead of benefiting American interests, they said, it has done a poor job protecting sensitive technology while blocking U.S. manufacturers from legitimately selling less vital products to buyers overseas.

Brian Nilsson, a Commerce Department employee on detail to the White House, accomplished what many had tried and failed to do in the past-he brought together stakeholders with entrenched interests to design and begin implementing a new system that will more effectively protect our national security and help American businesses compete in the global marketplace. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 11, 2012 at 8:25 AM

Feds@Work: Unique Partnership Nets Innovative Sustainability Solutions

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NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), plus the State Department, NIKE, Inc. and other private-sector partners, have been collaborating on a unique venture that identifies and provides support for innovative ideas and technologies dealing with such global challenges as water resources, clean air, health care and energy. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 6, 2012 at 1:30 PM

How 8 Enthusiasts Beat 9,000 Teams To Solve DARPA’s ‘Shredder’ Challenge

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Otavio Good, leader of the San Francisco-based team that won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Shredder Challenge earlier this month, doesn’t just do computer programming.

“I live it,” he told AOL Government in a telephone interview. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM

Final Words From Retiring Recovery Board Leader

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In this column, which originally appeared at Recovery.gov, Earl E. Devaney provides his outlook for the future in the weeks prior to his retirement Dec. 31. The final installment in a series of columns he wrote on the lessons he has learned from his work on the Recovery Board was published in November. The column originally appeared at Recovery.gov.

In a few days, my 41-year career in government ends. Through this column, the Recovery Board has given me a platform from which to address the need for more transparency and accountability in government, an issue of great importance to all Americans. In this farewell column, I am providing a status report on our work and what might lie ahead. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 19, 2011 at 2:00 PM
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