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- Katrina - reprise - three questions
- Katrina - reprise - three questionsOK before the two questions. I just finished watching a Discovery Channel special on Katrina. It mostly dealt with the problems at the Super Dome and the Convention Centre, and the delays in relief support. I got the impression that many people saw the problem...
- Tags: government, Katrina, bureaucracy, emergency, Deadly Ernest, off-topic, Tracey
- Discussion threads 2006-08-20
- tilt the balance of power?
- [b]Supporters of the state's plan to go with OpenDocument, rather than a Microsoft format, have hailed it as a landmark move that will tilt the balance of power to customers and away from vendors.[/b]They are wrong in that interpretation, since the consumer is the one with the power, if they...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., openxml, microsoft, government, red tape, bureaucracy, odf, open standards, apotheon, it management, OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2006-07-05
- Study: Cell phones a hazard on flights
- asinineThis should be something regulated by the airlines, and not a governmental bureaucracy.Impossible to test for interferenceWith the large number of users with wirelesslaptops and everyone has a cell phone, it isimpossible to test for interference when you have such a large number of manufacturers makingphones and laptops. The...
- Tags: telephone, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2006-03-03
- Waiting for power in Florida?
- Talk to US customs....http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051026/Hydro_one_20052610/20051026?hub=CanadaYou'd think if you see 170 people, 30 trucks etc, you might be able to figure out what its all about, or at least make a call to Hydro One to verify and get these people on their way. Instead, lets drag it out for 7 hours.Jamesyeahbut...
- Tags: bureaucracy, canada, CANADIAN, florida, Florida Power, hurrican wilma, Hydro, JamesRL, off-topic, worker
- Discussion threads 2005-10-27
Additional Resources
- Space Trader (exe)
- In the far future humanity is ruled by The Ministry of Accounts, an oppressive bureaucracy that tracks, records and taxes every transaction of daily life. From the depths of Red Tape a new breed of marketeer arises to challenge the authority and make a profit: the Space Trader is born!...
- Tags: Trader, HermitWorks Entertainment, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-12-05
- Homeland Security offers details on Real ID
- Government Endorsed ID TheftThis is a joke that will waste tax payer money and only create more government bureaucracy, while eroding away at our freedoms. It does not resolve the under laying problem, but provides a tool for making ID theft more common place by allowing any one that can...
- Tags: homeland security, identity theft, tekrat
- Discussion threads 2007-03-02
- Single-Window Government: Using the New Generation of e-Government to Transform Government Operations
- New technologies combined with an unprecedented abundance of available information is leading to a resurgence of self-reliance in people around the world. Recognizing this trend, the U.S. federal government has labeled its electronic government initiative "My Government, My Terms." Yet old-style bureaucracy has centered services around working practices rather than...
- Tags: CGI Group Inc., Government, E-government, Vertical Industries, Federal Government, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-07-13
- businessfirst: Ideas to help small companies retain their successful entrepreneurial spirit
- Innovation and enterprise is almost universally associated with small businesses. Typically, 95% of all innovations occur in businesses with less than 100 employees. When companies grow past this point the innovation is stifled by processes and bureaucracy.Download this white paper to read case studies of how larger organisations have rekindled...
- Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-02-26
- E-Government Services for Everyone
- The state of Baden-Wurttemberg wanted to use an innovative service portal to implement e-government instead of e-bureaucracy. Added value for citizens and potential for future functionality needed to be part of the package, alongside security, performance, and scalability. A high-performance portal solution via BEA WebLogic Server integrates local government and...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., High-performance, Portals, E-government, Web Technology, Data Management, Leadership, Internet, Government, Management
- Case studies
- Fighting boredom in the workplace
- I once had a job that was so boring it was almost psychological torture. I stayed there for nine months in the hopes that somehow something would make a turn and things would get better. I couldn't even reach out for new opportunities because the company bureaucracy was so bad....
- Tags: Workplace, Article, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Risk Management for E-Government Project
- Information Technology IT can satisfy the "Needs and wants" of citizens. However, the Government sector must grasp new ways of thinking, new ways of doing business, new alliances and new technology. This is vital in order to give citizens the services they want, the way they want them and when...
- Tags: Citizen, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., Risk Management, E-government, Strategy, Government, Management
- White papers 2006-02-07
- Learning to Count on Perl at the Census Bureau
- Like many government agencies, the U.S. Census Bureau leaves the selection of programming tools up to their techies, and more than a few in the back rooms of bureaucracy cut their teeth on Perl and a whole line of open source solutions. The Senior Internet Technology Architect who oversees system...
- Tags: Perl, Bureau, O'Reilly Media Inc., Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development
- Book chapters
- Building Effective & Auditable ITIL Change Management Processes in 4 Steps: Introduction and Phase 1 of the Visible Ops Methodology
- Join Tripwire as they present Gene Kim and Kevin Behr, co-authors of "The Visible Ops Handbook," as they provide a strategy to steer clear of energy-draining bureaucracy and to instead, build a catalytic and sustaining Change Management process. By creating a Change Management process using the Information Technology Process Institute...
- Tags: ITIL Change Management, Tripwire, Change Management, ITIL, Process Improvement, Leadership, It Services, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Management, Quality, Business Operations, Finance
- Webcasts
- Generalitat de Catalunya Provides Multichannel Access to More Than 6 Million Constituents
- How does one modernize a public administration that has not seen substantial change in 100 years? The Generalitat de Catalunya, a regional government in Spain, was faced with this challenge when it set out to transform itself from a fragmented bureaucracy into the Open Administration for Catalonia (Administracio Oberta de...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- DROD Journey To Rooted Hold (exe)
- Swordplay and puzzles combine in this thinking man's dungeon crawl. It's simple to learn, with just a handful of commands to master. But the unique gameplay provides an amazing depth. A detailed overhead view shows monsters, obstacles, and other game elements. You have as much time as you like to...
- Tags: Caravel Games, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-05
- State of New Jersey: Creating a Connected, Secure Government in New Jersey
- New Jersey's Office of Information Technology OIT serves seventeen agencies in state government. The Challenge for OIT was to turn a sprawling government bureaucracy into a safe, secure technology innovator using the Internet, migrating government services for businesses and residents online. OIT implemented VeriSign PKI services for digital certificate registration...
- Tags: Digital Certificate, New Jersey, Government, VeriSign Inc., Connected Corp., Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking
- Case studies
- Local Government Addresses Compliance and Improves Its Performance Management
- The mission of the United Kingdom's South Holland District Council SHDC is to promote South Holland as a thriving, living, and working rural community and to provide a wide range of community services. SHDC works hard to eliminate "Red tape" and government bureaucracy to provide better services for the district's...
- Tags: Performance, Compliance, Government, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Porto Alegre Regional Labor Court Standardizes Operations and Lowers Costs With Oracle
- Established in 1946 in Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, the Tribunal Regional do Trabalho 4 (TRT4) operates a network of 115 labor courts supported by more than 250 judges and 2,500 public service employees. they wanted to reduce paper processes and bureaucracy associated with TRT4's...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Channel Management, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Managing technology in higher education
- The first-ever CIO at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte not only built the school's infrastructure, but she also formulated a single IT vision. Find out why she believes that PCs aren't the tool of choice for the campus environment.Karin Steinbrenner, associate provost and the first-ever CIO at The...
- Tags: Thin clients, Strategy, Bob Weinstein, Steinbrenner, UNC Charlotte, thin client, information technology
- Technical articles 2002-07-17
- Sanity check: Counterpoint -- five reasons to decentralize your IT department
- I extolled the benefits of centralizing your IT department last week, and now I'm going to provide the counterpoint: the top five advantages you can gain by decentralizing your IT department. 5. IT is a smaller target for budget cuts Decentralizing primarily involves taking parts of the IT...
- Tags: Information Technology, Department, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
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