Last-minute Christmas panic gifts are not difficult to spot: an “In the Kitchen with Karl Rove” cookbook; wasabi-scented bath soap; an iTunes gift card that can only be redeemed for Kevin Federline “songs.” Christmas is four days away, and yet 35 million Americans seem to be rolling the dice when estimating their ability to find [...]
When some retiring executives make that difficult decision to ride off into the sunset, it is usually behind the wheel of a golf cart. This is not to say that these accomplished individuals completely detach from business pursuits, but more time to improve on a 6 handicap doesn’t hurt. The standard retirement book, however, may [...]
Each year, the Kidney Ball brings out the leaders in the government contracting space. Last month’s Kidney Ball was no exception. The event ended with entertainer Patti LaBelle rocking the 1,000 plus crowd. Some of the executives who attended included: Donna Morea of CGI, Anne Altman of IBM, Greg Baroni of Unisys, Jim Duffey of [...]
We’ve reported on the intersection of government and Web 2.0 technologies before on this blog. It’s an important and shifting landscape and nowhere is this dichotomy more evident than in Washington D.C. Most of the applications are born in the private sector. Wikipedia, for example, became widely used well before Intellipedia, the intelligence service’s equivalent [...]
If 60 is the new 40, then it is fair to say that $10 billion is the new $1 billion when it comes to the government contractor threshold for tier-one status. As massive, Agency-wide contracts such as Networx proliferate, the resources and staffing required to serve as a prime balloons along with them. What this [...]
IT leaders in government are wrestling with several competing forces in the Web2.0 world. The greatest force is a push for change towards more user-focused computing. But a resisting counter force threatens to delay this change. The counter force here is institutional inertia. Big organizations are just slow to change, and the larger, more complex [...]
It is becoming clear that there is in fact a happy medium between the old – and currently unraveling – Japanese keiretsu system that guaranteed lifetime employment and a younger generation here in the U.S. that hops between jobs as if they were hopping from the Red Line to the Blue Line at Metro Center. [...]
