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Business Objects buys Firstlogic

Acquisition of Firstlogic adds data-quality applications to Business Objects' offerings.

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Kelman: A concept whose time has come

The Bush administration deserves kudos for focusing on a small thing called performance.

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DHS looks for new financial management plan

Following collapse of EMERGE2, department needs a new strategy, officials say

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OMB to close repository

OMB's Federal Enterprise Architecture Management System will be shut down in favor of CORE.gov.

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SBA IG gets Senate confirmation

The Senate confirmed Eric M. Thorson as inspector general for the Small Business Administration.

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Monster roars at government market

Key hires and new advisory board signal new fed focus

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Lisagor: Diversity generates creativity

Smart managers seek ideas from people unlike themselves.

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Intercepts

You, too, can play the Warner Theatre, Abizaid vs. the Internet, Where did all the widget money go?, From green eyeshades to mining

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Wohlleben: Looking back, looking forward

CIOs feel the Clinger-Cohen Act has had a significant impact on managing IT.

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GSA clarifies telework rules for managers

New guidelines attempt to eliminate confusion about legalities, properties

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Leaders urged to manage dissent

New book offers ideas for coping constructively with oppositional employees

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Adding telework to agency survival kits

A distributed workforce can keep essential services running after devastating man-made or natural disasters

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Legislation would put grant info on Web

A bill introduced in the House would establish a public database to track federal grants.

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SMS does SOS

Short Message Service is earning a valued role as a link of last resort for crisis communications.

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Input moves into IT consulting

Firm known for its subscription databases hires high-profile former feds as consultants

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Some types of Web links break the law

Oregon legislators discover that linking to nongovernment sites violates state laws

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Agencies use more early-outs, buyouts

A new GAO report states that the total number of agencies using such offers to adjust their workforces has increased in the past two fiscal years.

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USPS bar codes get smaller, smarter

The Postal Service is expecting its bar codes to do more with less.<@SM>

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DOJ, DOD stress self-powered communications

The departments say Hurricane Katrina exposed the need for technology that can operate without a traditional infrastructure.

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Bill would require Congress to post lobbyist gifts

Members would have to publish on their official Web sites the cost of gifts and lobbyists' names.