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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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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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