Speaking at NASCIO Leadership Summit – Oct 2012
I will be speaking at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Leadership Summit on Oct 25, 2012 in San Diego, California. My talk will draw on my book, Intrapreneurship: Managing Ideas within Your Organization, and focus on how to lead through collaboration. For more details on the event, please click here: — NASCIO 2012 Leadership […]
Getting the Best from Your Employees: Leverage Their Ideas
Have you ever struggled with getting the best from your employees? If you have spent even minimal time managing people, your answer is probably going to be ‘yes.’ Managers often struggle with getting their employees to give their best or to punch above their weight. This topic has been a focus of many dissertations, books, […]
Presenting at the NSF Workshop on Participatory Challenge Platforms with a Public Intent
I had a wonderful time exchanging ideas with policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and even students at the NSF Workshop on Participatory Challenge Platforms with a Public Intent put on by the Center for Policy Informatics at Arizona State University. My formal remarks during the workshop drew on research results from our study of Challenge.gov. Since […]
Resiliency and Community Resiliency: An Interview
Since I was busy in Lisbon and Guimarães, I could not attend the 2012 Ridenour Faculty Fellowship Conference. Given that I was supposed to be on a panel discussing forms of resilience, I was interviewed before I left for Portugal. The interview was conducted by Maggie Cowell, an assistant professor of Urban Affairs and Planning in the School of […]
Visit to the Rotman School of Management – April 3, 2012
I enjoyed my recent visit to Toronto. I had the privilege of addressing a sold-out crowd at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. If your organization is interested in having me come by and talk about my recent book, Intrapreneurship: Managing Ideas Within Your Organization (University of Toronto Press, 2011) please send me an email. See below for a […]
Speaking and Book Signing at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
I will be speaking on Building Innovation into Organizations as a Competency as part of the Entrepreneurship Experts Speaker Series @ Rotman on April 3, 2012. The series is hosted by the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. My talk will be followed by a book signing event for Intrapreneurship: Managing Ideas Within Your […]
Technologies in Public Agencies and in PA Research: Three Mini-Cases of Use-Inspired Research
I will be giving a talk at the School of Public Affairs, College of Public Programs, Arizona State University on Feb 14, 2011 @ 10.30-12. Technologies in Public Agencies and in Public Administration Research: Three Mini-Cases of Use-Inspired Research Emerging technologies are transforming public agencies and the nature of governance. Public Agencies have long recognized the value […]
April in Lisbon – IGU Commission on Geography of Governance Annual Conference 2012
I will be presenting a paper at the Annual Conference of the IGU Commission on Geography of Governance in Lisbon, Portugal (April 12-14, 2012) .The paper, Citizen Apps and Urban Governance: Understanding the Landscape of Apps and their Impacts, draws on my current research project with Akshay Bhagwatwar (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University) and my IBM Center […]
Reflecting on Questions: Are you a Professional?
As the year wraps up, I have been taking time to relax, reflect, and plan for 2012. I have been always intrigued by the questions we ask ourselves when we reflect. Questions, and our ability to engaging in the questioning process, both introspectively and with others, is critical for the development of our cognitive, emotional, […]
Investigative Journalism
Over the next few months, I will be working with a team of researchers, graduate students, and practitioners to study the resiliency of local networks to crises (and catastrophic disasters) using a journalistic lens. Through interviewing subjects, we hope to collect a series of videos that can be used for traditional research analysis, but can […]