The First Step to IT Modernization: Putting Progress Ahead of Process
Several employees across different levels of government suggested one of those primary departments that proves to be a roadblock is IT.
Innovation
Being Real About Really Messing Up: A Take on Failing Forward
“Fail fast, fail forward” isn’t really trying to highlight failure, but the success that is born out of straight-up messing up.
Medicaid, Cloud and Large-Scale IT Modernization
In 2018, one agency in Washington became America’s first to transition its entire digital platform for delivering Medicaid assistance into cloud.
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The Change Agent’s Guide to Burnout
If you are managing culture shift or change in your organization how are you protecting yourself from burnout and or from not surviving the change you are seeking?
Look Left & Right: Narrowing the Innovation Gap in Government Using Analogical Thinking
Government leaders and policymakers need to add analogical thinking to their innovation quiver. At the core of analogical thinking is the ability to solve problems outside-in instead of inside-out.
Always Ask “Why Not?”
In my work, I often ask the question of “why?” But admittedly, I am a bit less courageous in asking “why not?”
A Surefire Plan for Avoiding Innovation Theater
If your organization doesn’t have a plan for how to scale and transition the innovations, you need one. Letting transformative products or concepts wither while they work through bureaucratic processes will kill organizational energy.
Fostering Rebel Talent
What ingredients need to be present for innovation to happen and for innovators (rebel talent) to have enough staying power to actually see change come to fruition?
Radical Ambition
Are you involved in projects that are daring in their visioning? If so, how do you preserve your vision as it goes through the approval process?