Should you Hunker down in the Bunker or Rise up and Respond?
As our minds turn to, “What’s next?” My mind turns to a famous saying from Chauncey Gardiner in the film “Being there”. Chance said, “As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden and growth has its seasons, there will be growth in the spring.” Chance’s simple and yet profound pearls of wisdom ring true, we will have growth and it will come this spring. What kind of growth, how fast, and what we need to be ready for is what we all want answers to? Together we can prepare …
Recovery Planning – STEP 2
Use synchronized planning to produce realistic strategies for the recovery and beyond Government and industry actions being taken to stem the economic damage from Covid-19 are happening in unprecedented volumes and at a rate not seen before. For example, Lockheed Martin announced $50M+ in advances to ensure its supply network has the means to continue to operate. With these unprecedented steps being taken, the question on the minds of business leaders now is “What strategy do I take action on in order to take advantage of these recovery actions?” In the ForeOptics blog “Recipe for Business Resilience” we explain that the …
Digital Transformation Is Happening In Our Police Forces
As somebody who teaches digital transformation and who has been telling my students for years that if they walk into a meeting with a notebook and pen they are failing to maximize the potential of new technology, I was struck by this news item in the New York Times, “Why the N.Y.P.D. dropped one of its oldest crime-fighting tools.” And yet I still come across managers who defend pen and paper tooth and nail, even though the evidence, as with the New York Police Department in the article, is that written notes are not much use. To me, this seems …
The Technology that Drives Government IT
Driving the IRS to DevOps The IRS created the Deployment and Release Integration and Visibility Engine to better automate software implementation. DRIVE operates as a database that tracks the life cycle of a software deployment from start to finish. At each step in a project, it updates the status of approvals, records of success or failure and any outstanding IT tickets that need to be addressed. Affectionately dubbed “the spaghetti bowl” by employees, the previous collection of legacy processes used for more than 7,750 transmittals every year often resulted in “death by too many options,” said Stephen Dill, an IT …
