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Posts Tagged: innovation
You Can be a Change Agent in Gov’s Digital Transformation
Need to make some changes at your agency? Check out how the CIO of the FCC modernized his technology and inspired his workforce.
Tips for Going Digital When your Agency Loves Paper
It’s easy to say “let’s go digital” but another matter to get organizational buy-in, especially when you work at an agency that has used the same paper-based processes for decades.
Meet a Pioneer
John Hine led efforts to bring the internet to New Zealand, check out this article to learn more about his story.
Reflections from the Department of Transportation
Richard McKinney was CIO at the Department of Transportation for nearly four years. Learn how he took the Department from a decentralized to enterprise model.
Reflections from the C-Suite
Check out the Department of Commerce’s former CIO’s advice on IT innovation.
Innovation at the EPA
Check out how this former CIO brought innovation and overcame challenges at her agency.
View from the Inside: What Government Agencies Need and Want May Be Two Different Things
The existing government process wants long-term solutions to be predictable and written in stone. Unfortunately, reality demands that the government process be responsive to ever-changing needs.
What is a “Governator”?
Profiling those who champion change in government process.
What Do You Think? – The Last Step in the Innovation Process.
The objective during this step is to explore how ideas might take form in the real world and be successful. It is about building to learn, making prototypes to understand how design solutions might work and testing to see how users experience them. Initial failure and repetition is part of the process and fundamental to… Read more »