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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Government Executive - Authors - Sydney Smith-Heimbrock</title><link>http://www.govexec.com</link><description>Dr. Sydney Smith-Heimbrock is the Deputy Associate Director for Employee Services’ Center for Strategic Workforce Planning and is the Executive Director for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Innovation Lab. Her team develops forecasts and strategies to position the Federal workforce for future requirements and tests creative new solutions through OPM’s Innovation Lab. Dr. Heimbrock also serves as Provost of the HR University, the Federal government's "one stop" Human Resources Career Development Center.</description><atom:link href="http://www.govexec.com/rss/voices/sydney-smith-heimbrock/6819/" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:00:00 -0400</lastBuildDate><item><title>The 3 Kinds of Innovation</title><link>http://www.govexec.com/excellence/promising-practices/2012/09/3-kinds-innovation/58371/</link><description>Innovation does not necessarily mean doing something entirely new.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sydney Smith-Heimbrock</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>http://www.govexec.com/excellence/promising-practices/2012/09/3-kinds-innovation/58371/</guid><category>Management - Promising Practices</category><media:content url="http://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/upload/2012/09/26/shutterstock_105199088-fix_3/large.jpg" width="618" height="284"><media:description></media:description><media:credit>Image via Dusit/Shutterstock.com</media:credit><media:thumbnail url="http://cdn.govexec.com/media/img/upload/2012/09/26/shutterstock_105199088-fix_3/thumb.jpg" width="138" height="83"></media:thumbnail></media:content></item></channel></rss>