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White House to reform Federal IT management

mdalal — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:09:44 +0000

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled a 25-point implementation plan to reform Federal IT management. The goals of this implementation plan are to 1) achieve operational efficiency through adopting light technologies and shared services AND 2) effectively managing large-scale IT programs. Read more here….

Federal Governement – Towards Increased Accountability

mdalal — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:52:14 +0000

The President’s Performance Agenda is changing the way government does business by embracing management and technological innovations to use resources more effectively and improve citizen services. The website http://performance.gov is designed to provide Federal government managers, Congress, and the public the ability to track progress on agency and government-wide efforts to achieve their top performance improvement priorities. Areas of focus include priority goals, acquisition, customer service, finance, human resources, open government, sustainability, and technology.

This new way of reporting and tracking federal agency performance is one more way the Obama administration is trying to achieve transparency and citizen-focus in government operations.

IT Dasboard – a new way to manage IT projects

mdalal — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:06:49 +0000

The IT Dashboard is a website enabling federal agencies, industry, the general public and other stakeholders to view details of federal information technology investments.

The purpose of the Dashboard is to provide information on the effectiveness of government IT programs and to support decisions regarding the investment and management of resources. The Dashboard is now being used by the Administration and Congress to make budget and policy decisions. Read more….http://it.usaspending.gov/?q=content/highpriority-projects

The American Recovery

mdalal — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:59:34 +0000

Recovery Dialogue: Information Technology Solutions

Open from April 27 thru May 3, 2009. Check out ideas at

http://www.thenationaldialogue.org

Transparency and Open Government

mdalal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:09:05 +0000

Recommendations for Open Government Directive in 120 days

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Transparency_and_Open_Government/

Green IT

mdalal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:41:15 +0000

Role of Enterprise Architecture in “Green” IT.

Considerations for different stages of EA:

Planning – Determine appropriate measures and metrics that are consistent with the organization business objectives and management philosophy.

Hello world!

mdalal — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:53:17 +0000

You will find stimulating discussion on current topics of interest in the US Federal IT community.