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4 Best Practices to Refresh Government Operations

The concept of modernization isn’t a cut and paste option. Every organization must align IT goals with their particular business needs to be effective.

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What’s Missing in the Encryption, Privacy and Security Debate

There are four key considerations surrounding the secure design of mobile devices we should keep in mind in both a government and private sector context.

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Why Agencies Must Take a 'Security First' Approach in 2016

In federal cybersecurity, what is being done – and what else can be done?

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Don’t Ask for Permission to Use Agile. Just Start Doing It.

In attempting to move your program to agile methods, you may encounter a number of challenges more common for government program managers than for commercial firms.

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Can Government Outpace the Private Sector in Innovation?

At its heart, digital government leadership is based on the very real and powerful idea that data is an invaluable strategic asset and a critical new natural resource for government -- the “oil” of our time.

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US Government Is Making It Possible to Dump Identifiers Tracking Contracts

As of June 2015, the government relied on approximately 380,000 DUNS numbers to track its contracts, and implementing a new and cost-effective system will not happen overnight.

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Beyond Email: 4 Collaboration Tips for Government Teams

The sheer number of online collaboration tools often hinders teams instead of helping them.

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Digital Customer Experience: 3 Tips for Making Real Change in the Federal Government

Federal organizations can benefit from a digital approach that seeks to understand user needs, engages them and maintains usability and performance.

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The Key Missing Piece of Your Cyber Strategy? Visibility

To protect privacy, continuous monitoring and mitigation has become a popular method.

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3 Government Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

As we ring in 2016, we will see a significant acceleration within three key technologies as the public sector fundamentally transforms its services to meet the needs of 21st-century population.

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There Were So Many Data Breaches in 2015. Did We Learn Anything From Them?

The cyber breaches in 2015 demonstrate the broad impact across both the public and private sectors.

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Driverless Cars: Here’s What the Obama Administration Should Do Next

On Dec. 4, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, which plans for a future of driverless cars

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Trending in Government: Robotic Process Automation

Any high-volume, high-touch, business-rule-driven, repeatable process is a candidate for RPA.

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Resolutions Government CIOs Should Consider in 2016

The emerging trend among modern CIOs is to think bigger and have goals beyond lowering costs and increasing efficiency.

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5 Cyber Risk Trends for 2016

These are the top themes CIOs and CISOs should have on their radar in the new year.

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6 Steps to Improve an Agency’s Cyber Defenses

Here are several security actions agency and command leadership can take to harden their cyber defensive posture.