May 2006
Welcome to GovernmentChangeAgents.com. The articles are listed below in chronological order. Click on the date to see the post.
May 1, 2006
Overcoming the French Resistance to Change: There’s an interesting article on Time Magazine’s European site about health reform in France. The article begins by discussing French citizen’s widespread resistance to reform...
May 4, 2006
Rumsfeld as a Change Agent: Part I: If you have been following the news in the past several weeks, you are already aware that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been treading in turbulent waters. On April 21st, the New York Times...
May 5, 2006
From Change Agents to "Change Artists": When writing the change agent paper, I thought long and hard about coining a new term to describe "change agents." In the end, I decided to leave the expression intact. I was not interested in...
May 8, 2006
Change Agent Interview with Jer Donald "Don" Get- Part I: Thanks to our colleague David Yang, we were able to secure a recent phone interview with Don Get who is the Executive Director, Air Intelligence Agency, at Lackland Air Force Base...
May 10, 2006
Part II of Change Agent Interview with Jer Donald "Don" Get: In part II of our interview with Don Get, Executive Director, Air Force Intelligence Agency, we discuss working within a bureaucracy, and how the change agent makes progress. We also...
May 15, 2006
Change Agents, Google and Time: There are few days when any of us fail to interact with Google. As a tool set, it has changed the way we consume information. Its founders have been widely acclaimed, featured in every publication imaginable...
May 17, 2006
Pod-Cast /Interview with Dick Burk: Governmentchangeagents.com is pleased to share a two part Pod-Cast Interview with the Office of Management and Budget’s Chief Architect, Richard "Dick" Burk. In this interview, Raj Shah and I probe Dick on his role in ...
May 19, 2006
Pod-Cast /Interview with Dick Burk part II: Here is the conclusion to Dick Burk's interview with Daniel Forrester and Raj Shah. In this part of the discussion he talks about performance measuring, innovation, and gives some lessons learned...
May 22, 2006
Getting Results amidst Enterprise -Wide Transformation: Working on the DOD account at Sapient, I am constantly exposed to organizations interested in enterprise-level systems modernization, and improving cross-departmental interoperability. Nearly...
May 24, 2006
Geoffrey Canada - Change Agent Extraordinaire: A recent segment on 60 Minutes captured the attention of the GCA.com writers. Rarely do we come across someone who so directly embodies the ideals, motivations, and personal attributes of a change agent...
May 26, 2006
The Challenges of Change and the Clinger - Cohen Act: In a previous posting we referred to an article about the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act, and its intent to transform the role of the CIO in Federal Government Information Technology. CIO’s were to go from being...
May 31, 2006
Staffing Change Agents and Leveraging Past "Failures": A nice short article called "Building The 'A' Team" from Forbes.com this week discusses how companies, especially start-ups, attract their talent. In many ways, the article reinforces the DNA model...