Talent management is not something that most government employees think about on a daily basis. But during the last several months, the ranks of state and local government employees have given human resource managers a multitude of new challenges. Furloughs and early retirement offers are shifting the demographics of the government workforce, opening lanes for younger [...]
A task force assigned to make Hawaii’s state government more efficient and increase productivity has released a report recommending various information technology and procurement reforms, as well as the establishment of a senior chief information officer.
In an announcement outlined Wednesday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon unveiled an initiative to grow the state’s science and technology sector through stable and ongoing funding sources. By establishing a dedicated fund for high-tech job growth, Gov. Nixon said the initiative would help nurture existing science and technology companies while generating an attractive environment for more [...]
Los Angeles city employees have ‘gone Google’ for their e-mail and other applications. And according to city officials, the cloud computing solution will have far-reaching benefits for all public sector agencies in the state.
According to the US Department of Labor, unemployment insurance claims rose 17,000 to 474,000 last week. These numbers come after five straight weeks of decline, catching some economists off guard. Unemployment claims were expected to be around 460,000, but a Labor Department economist told Reuters that “claims had been bumped up by seasonal industries laying people [...]
In their recent book, “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon…Getting Big Things Done in Government,” Bill Eggers and John O’Leary, developed a framework by examining seventy-five case studies of complex government projects, and they found that by breaking big projects into pieces, they were able to identify points of failure that followed [...]
Coming out of last week’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York City, the industry buzz was focused on the usual – cloud computing, social networking, and what to do with the latest Google innovation. But one catchy hook caught the ears of a few reporters: dot-gov is the new dot-com. One project announced during the Expo is [...]
Last week, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced the opening of a business assistance center, designed to help small businesses win government contracts. As Recovery Act dollars continue to roll out from the federal government, it’s important for small businesses to remain competitive, Ritter administration officials said.
When the tab for the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act starts to be counted in October, an unlikely group of government employees may well prove to be the most capable of insuring the stimulus’ success. The Association of Government Accountants held their fourth annual Internal Control & Fraud Conference in Washington, D.C. last [...]
Only two months into fiscal year 2010, nineteen states have called for furloughs, with another two states looking for possible alternatives. Nearly a million state employees, including teachers and workers at public universities, are facing furloughs in the next two years, the National Conference of State Legislatures says. But a pair of recent court rulings [...]
