SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

How much time do well paid executives spend sitting in meetings? Have you ever considered how much a single meeting can cost in salaries?

In the age of technology there are a lot of time and travel saving ways of sharing ideas. Wikis and other collaborative software are a great ways to share ideas with colleagues without needing to take a lot of time for everyone to meet.

Government IT departments often restrict or... more »

Every agency should set up a wiki website where any employee can contribute and revise suggested improvements to agency documentation, policies and procedures. Analysts responsible for these respective areas would then incorporate these ideas, crediting appropriately (cash awards, time off, etc) for adopted improvements.

Set up a WIKI for Federal and Local Government employees where they can share best practices and solutions for problems. Would allow rapid sharing of ideas too improve efficiency.

I think that an intra-agency wiki would have significant benefits to government agencies and would help the government realize potential cost savings. A wiki would provide a central, organized repository for research and analysis, which would eliminate the tremendous amount of research duplication that occurs within government and encourage consistency in knowledge. For the DOE (which I support), I could imagine a small... more »

Currenlty our offices is restricted from utilizing effective web-basd collaborative tools like PBworks (a web-based collaborative wiki like tool) and Survey Monkey (a web-based survey tool) which are both utilized by other agencies. Instead we rely on outdate solutions with one seat licenses that allow only one out of hundreds employee to utilize the tools at any given time. These restrictions hamper our abiliy to effectively... more »