People

Kelman: GSA and the workforce

GSA has responsibility to use revenues more creatively on the government's behalf

People

Kelman: Past performance revisited

The workforce must be trained how to make use of contractor evaluations.

People

Kelman: Deep smarts

Senior managers must nurture institutional knowledge.

Digital Government

Kelman: Purchase cards: Priceless

Feds mostly avoid buying at retail prices when a relevant contract is available

Acquisition

Kelman: Are we better off now?

There is progress with procurement, but large programs still have not been fixed.

People

Kelman: The e-gov pulse

The first message is Google rules, while only a handful had even heard of FirstGov.

Acquisition

Kelman: Leadership, at long last

Safavian understands the needs of and threats to a value-oriented system.

People

Kelman: Pay for performance pays

A new approach to compensation could attract younger employees.

People

A new agenda

Kay Coles James was the star of the Bush administration's management reform team.

Acquisition

Kelman: Show off share-in-savings

Applications for about 45 share-in-savings projects await approval.

People

Kelman: Procurement ? a quiet crisis

Strain on the workforce increases the chances of contracting errors.

Acquisition

Kelman: The comeback kid

GSA's Drabkin deserves our thanks.

People

In or out of house

The government should develop its own business cases for IT investments.

Acquisition

A time for statesmanship

This is a dangerous moment for procurement.

Acquisition

Kelman: The Mayflower revisited

Anybody remember the Mayflower Compact?

Digital Government

Kelman: Perfecting performance

When I came to work for the government about a decade ago, the Air Force was experiencing a big problem with a large information technology hardware contract called Desktop II.

Acquisition

Steve Kelman: Competitive procurement

Consider contests as a procurement technique.

Acquisition

Kelman: Time to share savings

Columnist Steve Kelman says share-in-savings contracts can promote better performance.

People

Reforms are just a start

Procurement reform over the past 15 years have had an impact on government IT, but more needs to be done

People

A milestone for measuring results

Results should be seen as a tool for improvement so people will embrace it.