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Obama forms private-sector board to improve agency operations
A new advisory board will give Obama advice on improving agency operations, particularly in customer service, IT and productivity
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GSA chief of staff job is no longer open
The General Services Administration has picked its next chief of staff from within its ranks.
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Winners and losers under the NHIN Direct project
The Health and Human Services Department's NHIN Direct may cost state health information exchanges a way to make money.
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New board will advise on improving government operations
President Obama has established an advisory board to help his administration find the best ways to improve government operations.
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Applying for federal jobs may get easier
Federal hiring reform seeks to make the government job application process easier for candidates, OPM director says.
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IRMCO opens with telework talk
The General Services Administration's IRMCO conference, underway on Maryland's Eastern Shore, features an array of topics and speakers.
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HHS emphasizes dashboards, new datasets in transparency plan
The Health and Human Services Department is launching two new performance management dashboards and releasing new Medicare patient data as part of its transparency effort.
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Open gov unleashed in a flurry of plans
Reaction to the latest round of agency plans was muted last week — not by a lack of interest but by the overwhelming volume of information.
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VA highlights IT innovation, crowdsourcing in open government plan
Among other initiatives, the VA plans to set up ongoing competition to come up with new ideas for improving the agency's services and operations.
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New lifeline for the poor and underprivileged arrives via mobile health
Because of White House involvement, Text4baby is probably the most high-profile example of mobile health. Its success is likely to give more attention to a health information technology approach that has been in development for at least three years and is on the cusp of expanded federal regulation.
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What's on Sonya Thompson's bookshelf?
The deputy assistant director/chief information officer of the Federal Bureau of Prisons shares her current favorites.
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The CIO 14 years later: Power vs. paperwork
Fourteen years after Clinger-Cohen established the job, CIOs still struggle for real control.
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The CIOs' growing workload
Since their position was created in 1996, federal chief information officers have experienced an increasing workload of compliance requirements.
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So you want to be a CIO?
Here are the competencies that successful government chief information officers need.
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Data mining:
The United States fell a couple of notches from third to fifth place in the World Economic Forum's information technology rankings.
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Nobel Prize-worthy economic theory has lessons worth learning for federal IT
An award-winning economic theory offers insight into three important federal IT trends, Warren Suss writes.
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Coming to terms with FaceSpace
The defining question for any CIO today is whether they allow their employees to access the latest, greatest hits of Web 2.0.
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People on the move, events in the news
The FOSE trade show, which ran concurrently with GovSec/U.S. Law, was the big draw in late March. Participants filled the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington.
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Acquisition training: The classroom vs. the real world
FCW readers agree with a recent blog post that questioned the quality of acquisition training available to federal employees.
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