September 2006

Welcome to GovernmentChangeAgents.com. The articles are listed below in chronological order. Click on the date to see the post.

September 6, 2006

Innovation through Partnership : A COTS Solution for Manned Space Flight?: A recent article on TheOnion.com lampoons the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the satirical headline 'NASA Announces Plan to Launch $700 Million into Space.’ As the article explains ...

September 11, 2006

Reflecting on 9/11 and The Void Left in its Wake: It has now been five years since 9/11/2001. Despite abundant media coverage, one topic has yet to be addressed in any analysis or report. From the 9-11 Commission Report, to the President's New Strategy...

September 13, 2006

Students Today, Change Agents Tomorrow: The Washington Post recently covered the 2006 Truman Scholars Program, a government sponsored agency led by Madeleine Albright. The former secretary of state describes the foundation as, "a gateway for America's...

September 15, 2006

Metrics - No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy: Anyone in the business of transformation, is intimately familiar with the importance of metrics. The easiest way to determine change is to measure it over time, and compare to the original. In many cases, this...

September 18, 2006

Thoughts and Feedback: Here are some good comments by one of our reader's in response to our posting on metrics. "Regarding metrics, the task force that developed our transportation department's performance measures determined...

September 20, 2006

Challenging Views of Success in Government IT Projects: IT projects often appear at the center of some of the hottest debates about the efficiency in government spending and planning. "Success" in great number of these projects is often based soley on whether...

September 25, 2006

Big Money for Good Ideas: A response we received to a recent post turned us on to an intriguing website that may be of interest to other GCA.com readers. The site, SinceSlicedBread.com (SSB), was founded because--as the site asserts--today’s...

September 27, 2006

Keeping an Eye on Big Brother: I recently came across an article that discusses making progress in government through public disclosure or embarrassment. It pointed out a website called ExpectMore.gov which exposes how well government programs...

September 29, 2006

Change Agents, Trust and Briefing to OPM: On Wednesday morning of this week, I had the pleasure to be a "guest faculty" at the Office of Personnel Management's Contemporary Leadership Issues Seminar at the Eastern Management Development Center in Shepherdstown...