Guest Blogger Shue-Jane Thompson

Submitted by on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 09:27

Dr. Shue-Jane Thompson is Vice President and Partner, Biometrics and Cybersecurity, IBM Global Business Services. She oversees related technology, innovation, solution development and client service delivery. Shue-Jane has been with IBM for two years and has 30+ years' commercial, government and international technology and business management experience. She holds a Ph.D. in atmospheric science, two master's degrees and a doctorate in business management.

Anupam Kumar

Submitted by on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 09:04

Dr. Anupam Kumar teaches at Howard University. He has over a decade of consulting experience working for firms such as IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, and Parsons Engineering and Science, Inc. He led the Public Sector Supply Chain Planning group at IBM. His expertise spans data management, business intelligence, and business analytics.

James Haddow

Submitted by on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 09:00

James Haddow (Jim) is Director of the Center for Excellence in Supply Chain Management in the School of Business at Howard University in Washington DC. Currently, Jim teaches a range of supply chain management courses for both undergraduate and graduate level students. His interests also include national and global operational and information system risk management. Jim has made supply chain presentations at ISM, IMC, APICS, PMAC and other Global industry conferences over the last several years.

Rajni Goel

Submitted by on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 08:54

Dr. Rajni Goel is a Professor and former Chairperson of the Information Systems and Supply Chain Management Department in the School of Business at Howard University. Dr. Goel served as a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India, conducting research and assisting in curriculum development in the area of Cyber security. She currently serves as the Director of Research of the Howard University Cyber-Security Education and Research Center (CERC), assisting with it’s establishment and funding from industry and government entities. Dr.

Managing Cybersecurity Risk in Government

Submitted by on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 08:45

As a result, cyber is increasingly being viewed as a key component in enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks. At the same time, agency managers encounter the challenge of implementing cyber risk management by selecting from a complex array of security controls that reflect a variety of technical, operational, and managerial perspectives.

John Pereira

Submitted by on Tue, 07/17/2018 - 14:18

John Pereira is our Intelligence Community Fellow.  John leads Center thought leadership activity focused on the intelligence enterprise in government, providing insights and recommendations that can help leaders across intelligence agencies improve program performance, effectiveness and efficiency.  John is also an Intelligence Industry Leader for Defense & Intelligence for IBM Global Business Services, Public Services Sector.

Weekly Roundup: July 9-13, 2018

Submitted by on Fri, 07/13/2018 - 10:03

Getting Good Advice.  In a commentary piece for Government Executive, Janet Weiss writes: “Across the federal government, about a thousand committees governed by the Federal Advisory Committee Act and an untold number of additional committees meet each year to offer advice to improve government performance. Federal leaders devote considerable effort to planning, scheduling and staffing these committees.

Weekly Roundup: July 2-6, 2018

Submitted by on Fri, 07/06/2018 - 08:19

John Kamensky

Weekly Round Up - June 29, 2018

Submitted by on Fri, 06/29/2018 - 14:22

The IBM Center's Weekly Roundup highlights articles and insights that we found interesting for the week ending June 29, 2018.

Michael J. Keegan

DOD consolidates cloud under CIO. The Pentagon announced new CIO Dana Deasy was taking control over all of the department's cloud initiatives, but it's not clear what that means for the warfighting cloud acquisition program JEDI.

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