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FITARA: The Messy Reality of Unintended Consequences
Mismanaged implementation may actually result in delays for IT delivery speed and effectiveness.
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5 Cultural Shifts Agile Brings to Agencies
Agencies can shift their approach toward agile if they’re willing to embrace some fundamental changes in government IT culture.
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Is Your Agency Trying to Improve Customer Service? Don’t Overlook These Key Factors.
While surveys can offer valuable insights into the customer experience, there is another, even more readily accessible source of intelligence about customer satisfaction: your employees.
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10 Steps to Making Your Agency Agile
In the end, you and your teams simply need to dive in and try it out.
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Apple Versus the US Government, Who is Right?
It is important to note that technology giants have generally worked with the government for almost 100 years.
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Top 10 Reasons to Invest in the Human Element of Cybersecurity
Organizations must prioritize people if they are to see a greater return on their cybersecurity investment.
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Encryption Debate: The Issue Isn’t Strong Crypto; It’s Easy Crypto
The encryption debate is poised to intensify this year.
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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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7 Steps to Faster Transformation in Government
The need for transformation in government is a constant.
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So, You’re Starting Up a Tech Pilot Project? Follow These 5 Steps.
Keep it cheap and think simple.
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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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Will Government Agencies Embrace Innovation Driven by Mobile?
Creative ways of using mobile apps for government continue to multiply.
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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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