In the world of tech, we recognize that introducing a new product or service is often highly disruptive to an existing market and its competitors.
Continue ReadingOne of the reasons I moved from a successful 20-year career innovating in the private sector to spending time serving the public sector wasn’t because
Continue ReadingAsk yourself how much new value did you create for your organization today? Did you suggest a new way to reengineer a common task that
Continue ReadingLeaders: You understand the value of technology to your organizations. You know technology can be the difference between competitive advantage and irrelevancy. So I’d like to
Continue ReadingThe following essay was submitted to the Alliance for Innovation by Jonathan Reichental (Chief Information Officer of the City of Palo Alto) and Sheila Tucker
Continue ReadingMaking your agency’s data easily accessible to community members and computer applications has the potential to be a public sector game-changer. We call this process
Continue ReadingIn his second guest column for EfficientGov, Palo Alto CIO Jonathan Reichental looks at the Open Data movement, and the criticality of “open government” in
Continue ReadingThis post first appeared on September 13, 2012 on EfficientGov as part of a guest column called Reichental’s Digital City. Although attribution remains contested, Einstein
Continue ReadingPete Peterson, Executive Director, Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy; his essay on his discussion with Jonathan Reichental
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