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  • Just Say Yes!

    As Christopher Dorobek notes in this month’s Incoming column, the role for federal CIOs is changing. There’s been a lot of conversation about culture needing to change to get out of this “two-point-NO” mindset that many CIOs have. Our question for you is how does that change happen? How can we shape the culture so that government IT leaders can say “yes” to technology more often?

    7/01/09 • (0)

  • Collaboration vs. Communication

    Dorobek makes an excellent point when he says that e-mail really did revolutionize the way we communicate, but hasn’t done much toward the effort to collaborate. But since we’ve gotten in the habit of using e-mail to collaborate, for lack of better tools in the ’90s, we’re still using e-mail to collaborate even though better tools are out there.

    6/01/09 • (6)

  • Transparency Matters

    … And Incoming author Christopher Dorobek would like you to know why in his May column. It’s more than a buzzword, he writes: “No person can overestimate the complexities involved in implementing government transparency. It is a dramatic shift in the way we think about information, particularly in government.”

    5/06/09 • (1)

  • What Government Managers Can Learn From Google

    In Christopher Dorobek’s latest Incoming column, he bids readers to have a look at What Would Google Do?, a book by Jeff Jarvis that examines how people can learn from the search engine giant. The lessons, he says, are particularly important for government managers to wrap their brains around. “The book taps into the idea that information is power, but that the real power of information comes in the sharing,” Dorobek writes. “Among the principles the book outlines are: give up control; get out of the way; and make mistakes well.”

    4/02/09 • (0)

  • Managing Performance in the Public Sector

    Christopher Dorobek, writing in this month’s Incoming column, addresses a major question for public managers: Just what is the best way to manage in the public sector? During the 1990s, many government agencies were trying valiantly to put performance standards into place, and took many cues from the private sector. But as Dorobek notes in Ending Government’s Private-Sector Envy, government is very different from private industry.

    3/02/09 • (0)

  • Balancing oversight and innovation

    With all the headlines about honest mistakes of late, it bears remembering that not all mistakes are bad, writes Christopher Dorobek in his newest Incoming column, “Government Needs to Find Balance in Oversight”. Noting the government trend toward accountability, Dorobek questions whether accountability itself should be the mission of government. Too much oversight, he cautions, may stifle the very thing agencies need most to best accomplish their missions.

    2/03/09 • (1)

  • The Wisdom of All of Us

    Chris Dorobek, writing in this month’s Incoming column, notes several examples of successful Gov 2.0 implementation in various agencies. He writes that the impending change in Washington’s scenery and political tides may not be as nebulous as the rhetorical cry for “change” might imply:
    Each inauguration brings about change. But this year, there is an almost [...]

    1/02/09 • (2)

  • Welcoming Christopher Dorobek to SIGNAL

    SIGNAL Editor in Chief Robert K. Ackerman puts some perspective on the Incoming column in this month’s “Behind the Lines”:
    Two years ago, we began a new column called Incoming. Located on the last page of the magazine and featured online each month as part of SIGNAL’s blog, Incoming featured a guest columnist providing commentary on [...]

    1/02/09 • (0)

  • The Cybersecurity Challenge

    As cybercrime and cyberwarfare continue to be the defining challenges of the 21st century, how can the new administration and Congress best prepare the country to fully embrace cybersecurity as a national priority?

    12/01/08 • (0)

  • Think Fast

    “Significant change” is needed in how organizations approach questions of efficiency and effectiveness, writes Lt. Gen. Harry D. Raduege Jr., USAF (Ret.) in this month’s Incoming column, Change Is a Requisite for the Future of Network-Centric Operations. Noting how businesses are embracing Internet-based Web services and social networking media, he makes a case for a [...]

    11/03/08 • (1)