Management

Health IT Checkup

Defense and Veterans Affairs lead the way in making a nationwide health information network a reality.

Management

Learning It Your Way

Formal classroom training isn’t the best route for many federal workers.

Management

Drilling Down

Agencies use analytics software to comb filings for errors and fraud before payments go out.

Management

A Hiring Offense

Requiring incoming contractors to retain incumbent workers could compromise service.

Management

Where’s the Rigor?

The Gulf oil spill highlights the management issues federal scientists face.

Management

The Path to Partnership 2.0

Agency and union officials should draw on lessons from the Clinton years.

Management

Political Hot Potato

Career civil servants can’t be expected to make all the hard decisions.

Management

Listening In

Surveillance laws should focus on how agencies use information, not how they collect it.

Management

Mission Fissures

Many federal agencies have long struggled with conflicting aims. Breaking them up isn’t hard to do.

Management

Defining Dashboards

Agencies are boosting transparency online, but making data meaningful is the real trick.

Management

Transparency Trap

Opening the book on government operations could cause major headaches for federal managers.

Management

The Global Maze

Many domestic agencies are unprepared for new worldwide missions.

Management

Energy Smarts

Data center consolidation offers an opportunity to go green.

Management

Don’t Go, KSAs

Federal managers will find ways to revive ‘knowledge, skills and abilities’ statements under a different name if hiring reformers eliminate them.

Management

Transparent Leadership

Open government requires not only sharing information, but also the reasoning behind it.

Management

Ha Ha Ha

For many, the age-old jokes about government work are no laughing matter.

Management

All About Apps

A push to develop more online applications is gathering supporters.

Management

A Test of Leadership

Employee suggestion programs put managers’ reputations on the line.

Management

Point of No Return

As agencies seek newer technologies, the question is how much IT spending is too much.

Management

It’s a Stretch

Four tried-and-true ways to trim fat from your office budget -- and avoid being asked to cut from the bone.