One of the two major areas of focus for me these days is AMARC. I am working with Tom Suder, the President of MobileGov on setting AMARC up. We just finished setting up our webpage, www.amarcedu.org. We are in the process of creating an Advisory Board consisting of Academic, Government, and Corporate members to provide [...]
I thought it might be useful to talk a little bit about what I am doing. At this point in my career, my interests revolve around how to improve the provisioning of services and products to the Government on one hand and the ability of Government to make use of these products and services more [...]
Tags: AMARC·ESEM Consulting
I was, to my continual amazement, invited back again to be on the Federal news Countdown, hosted by Francis Rose, on WFED, on the AM dial at 1500. During the show two guests go over their top three Federal news stories of the week, starting with their third most important, then their second and finally [...]
<published earlier by FedScoop, http://fedscoop.com/big-data-is-it-a-big-deal/> In our increasingly fast-paced world, the buzz-word du jour, Big Data, looks like a winner of the fastest transition from cool, new, vacuous, poorly-defined concept to mainstream acceptance and implementation. A year or two ago if you had mentioned Hadoop, listeners would have thought you had the hiccups (or had [...]
Every now and again, I get invited to appear on the Federal Countdown, hosted by Francis Rose, Friday afternoons from 3pm to 4pm on WFED radio. The focus of the show is to have two guests select their three most important stories about the Federal Government. The third most important article is discussed by each [...]
Tags: acquisition·big data·cloud computing·francis rose·GSA·OMB·wfed
For the last two year’s I have written, or largely written, the Powertek Corporation, www.powertekcorporation.com, response to a SmartCEO, http://www.smartceo.com/, set of questions associated with where Powertek is positioned technically and what that means to the company. While preparing this year’s, I looked at what I had written in 2011 and by golly, much of what [...]
Tags: government business·mobile·smartceo·technology futures
In the February 1, 2012, Harvard Business Review, there was an analogy used to discuss the impact of social media on an organization which I thought was pretty useful. Gerry Eberstadt, the CEO and founder of Turnto Networks, compared the difference between teaching a class and hosting a party. In both everyone is in the [...]
I teach a class at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) about the future of Information Technology. One of the great things about doing this is how much I learn each semester, I find I always gain much, much more than I bring to the class (pointed out to me by the observant students [...]
Tags: aetna·alan fowler·chat·ibm·internet·mentoring·merrill lynch·telecommuting
Reposted from AOL Government, http://gov.aol.com/2011/12/12/why-fedramp-is-worth-caring-about/. If you have been at a recent Washington Capitals hockey game when the opponent scores a goal, you know the crowd routinely shouts out “Who cares!” Last week, Steven VanRoekel, Federal CIO, released the long awaited OMB plan for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP; which reminds me to be [...]
Tags: CFO·cio·cloud computing·DHS·dod·federal news radio·FedRAMP·francis rose·GSA·OMB·powertek corporation·Steven VanRoekel·technology·Veterans Administration
This last weekend I attended the Executive Leadership Conference (ELC) sponsored by ACT-IAC in Williamsburg. The opening night keynote speaker Scott Klososky, presented some interesting points but I felt left out some key issues; probably a bit of an unfair feeling since he only had an hour to cover a lot of material. I wrote [...]
Tags: act-iac·aol government·elc·scott klososky·williamsburg·youtube