innovation
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Trudy Givens, of Portage, Wisc., beat out more than 18,000 with her idea for an \"opt-in\" option for hard copies of the Federal Register.
November 15, 2010 -
Acquisition oversight by agency inspectors general, the Government Accountability Office and Congress have muted a lot of the innovation by contracting officers. A new survey by the Professional Services Council and Grant Thornton finds most…
November 15, 2010 -
USA Today reports the public submitted 123,000 ideas to BP on how to stop the oil flow and clean up the spill.
November 15, 2010 -
Federal News Radio Book Club meets to discuss \"The New Social Learning\".
November 12, 2010 -
Alan Silberberg and Ray Wang of Constellation Research Group told the DorobekINSIDER how their firm helps agencies achieve Gov 2.0.
November 10, 2010 -
The Census must change the way it does business if it wants to stay in business, NextGov reports.
October 25, 2010 -
The DorobekINSIDER moderated the Fed Talk Conference and panelist Craig Newmark, the Craig of Craig\'s List and a government innovator, about innovation.
October 22, 2010 -
Washington Business Journal offers ways to encourage workers to share ideas.
October 21, 2010 -
Harvard business professor John Kotter offers ideas about how to get others to buy into your idea in his book, \"The Buy-In,\" which he writes about in a post in the Harvard Business Review.
October 08, 2010 -
The first electric vehicle joined the Postal Service fleet in 1899, more than 100 years ago, after proving to be more efficient than a horse and buggy. USPS\'s Sam Pulcrano tells us how that tradition carries on today.
October 04, 2010 -
How can the health care industry improve services, reduce costs and expand access? Jim Champy offers ways to bring innovation to health care in his book \"Reengineering Health Care.\" Champy, chairman emeritus of Dell Services Consulting, told In Depth that the time is ripe to retool the current system.
September 23, 2010 -
It’s back — the Federal News Radio Book Club. In fact, we haven’t had a “meeting” since April when we discussed Daniel Pink’s book Drive. For newcomers… Think of the Federal News Radio Book Club…
September 15, 2010 -
A new advisory council will provide Commerce and other agencies with ideas for how the government can help push federally-funded technologies into the commercial marketplace. Locke said his agency will do its part by speeding up the patent process to one year and get certain grant funding out in 30 days. Commerce also is working with NIH and NSF on the i6 Challenge where $12 million is available for companies to commercialize technologies.
September 08, 2010 -
Tim Hoechst, Chief Technology Officer at Agilex, has been thinking about technological innovation and diffusion. You should too.
August 31, 2010 -
A discussion tries to explain how to accomplish innovation now when \"the Bureaucracy\" seems to work against it and how people can innovate from where they are in their organization. John Palguta with the Partnership for Public Service gives us a preview.
July 27, 2010