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TRANSFORMATION TRANSFIGURED
Transformation in
government is coming down the pike but it’s not what you
think.
DOD UNDERSECRETARY ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION
Stephen A. Cambone, three years after becoming the Defense
Department’s first undersecretary of intelligence, has announced he
will resign at the end of the month.
WYATT KASH | VIEWPOINT: NETWORK GOVERNANCE: HELP
WANTED
There are many skills that define successful managers
in the public and private sectors. But one skill set that separates
effective public sector managers from merely good managers in general is
the art of managing governance and policy. Increasingly, however, that
capability is taking on new and more complex dimensions as government
moves from a command-and-control culture to a network-managed
approach.
BOOKSHELF: CLARITY ON THE METRICS MUDDLE
It
isn’t easy to measure performance in the public sector. In the
private sector, organizations have clear-cut metrics like profitability
and stock market performance.
COOLER HEADSETS PREVAIL
Federal agencies are
increasingly using the Internet instead of standard telephone lines for
voice communications. The Food and Drug Administration, for example, has
incorporated a voice over IP infrastructure into its new Maryland
headquarters building, which houses 1,700 employees. And the Agriculture
Department’s Forest Service recently installed VOIP to ensure
communications among its offices as part of its preparation for fire
season in the West.
VOINOVICH'S LAMENT
The problems with pay for
performance reported by a sampling of the civil service’s most
elite group—the Senior Executive Service—don’t bode well
for governmentwide implementation of a performance-based pay
system.
CIRA TAKES TOP IT SPOT AT FEMA
Former
executive director of infrastructure operations for the Homeland
Security Department CIO’s office Tony Cira has moved to the top IT
job at FEMA.
FISHER NAMED ACTING DIRECTOR OF BTA
The
Defense Department’s Business Transformation Agency has announced
its new acting director will be David Fisher.
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