http://www.innovations.harvard.edu This vast section is on innovations happening within small and large scale organizations. It focuses on internal best practices that have dramatic external influences. The subtopics include administrative and regulatory reform, business and industry, e-government, human resources, labor relations, leadership, performance measurement and management, procurement, public communications and service delivery. There are several studies, articles, news items, and academic papers on innovations in achieving better management practices and organizational excellence. Organizational behavior, allocation of technical resources, and regulation of private entities are covered. en-us Copyright 2009, Government Innovators Network Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:43:00 -0500 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:43:00 -0500 info@innovations.harvard.edu http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/725205.html How communities can become social innovation hot spots. Communities—cities, towns, villages, regions—can create the conditions that stimulate social innovators to transform the performance of local systems like education, economic development, health care, and more. But in most places, civic leaders don't know enough about how to do this and often shortchange their efforts or ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/272721.html Agencies are allowed to raise pay caps for their Senior Executive Service (SES) members if the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) certifies and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) concurs that their appraisal systems meet applicable criteria. As requested, this report examines selected agencies' policies and procedures for (1) factoring organizational performance into SES appraisal decisions ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/674760.html As the director of the District of Columbia's Child and Family Services Agency, Olivia Golden led the turnaround of a troubled system. In her new book, Reforming Child Welfare, she draws on her expertise as a senior federal official, local administrator, and an academic to map out strategies for improving and revitalizing the last safety net for vulnerable children and families, the public child ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/830082.html We're betting on network approaches to become an important way of increasing social change. For the past six years, Madeleine Taylor and I have been working with the idea that network-building approaches offer social-change agents and organizations a powerful new way to generate impact. We've consulted with networks large and small; written and circulated articles and drafted a handbook, ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/707604.html When New Orleans recovery czar Ed Blakely packed up his office earlier this summer and left the city he had come to fix, few outside the yet-to-heal region took notice. Buried under news of the current economic storm, the headline came and went like an obituary for a past-her-prime TV actress. Yet for those living here, the unexpected departure of the single official charged with making their hometown ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/691342.html Wikis and other social media are transforming vertical communication into horizontal collaboration. Public CIOs must pay attention to this trend. http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/751360.html The Information Dominance Directorate will combine functions managed by the director of Naval Intelligence and deputy chief of naval operations for communication networks. http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/619914.html IT project management strategies for state and local governments. http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/144101.html http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/717975.html Some agencies opt for internal clouds over vendor-hosted cloud computing. http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/769470.html $90,000 to be available to state and local agencies. http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/726140.html Opportunities, challenges and recommendations for virtualizing IT in the public sector. http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/566436.html While not everyone quite understands social media, or Web 2.0, all of us more or less agree that it is here to stay. In the past the Internet was a one-way information medium, but today the audience talks back. People react to what ... http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/221271.html Developing interoperable communications is the issue for which states most need federal assistance. http://www.innovations.harvard.edu/news/718116.html Cyber-megacommunity war gaming helps strategic decision-making in the Internet age.