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(8/2/2007) New York is known for its yellow taxis that seem to be everywhere in the city that never sleeps. Yet if GPS technology is installed as planned, those taxis may be hard to find. New York taxi drivers have promised to strike sometime in September if GPS technology is implemented in 13,000 cabs. | (8/2/2007) Taking an enterprise view can help to guide an organization to improved planning, decision-making, communications and business direction. It's also time-consuming and requires ongoing investment to support. It's not a one-time quick fix, either. The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the ability to better automate business processes and implement changes quickly. | (8/2/2007) The U.K. Government's Chief Information Officer Council has posted a video on YouTube, covering progress across the three main themes of its transformational government strategy: customer-centric services; shared services; and professionalism. The video offers real-life examples of transformational government in action, through interviews with programme owners, stakeholders and users of services. | (8/1/2007) Decades of siloed system design have left most government organizations with antique, rickety systems that don't play well with others. By putting new SOA wrappers on old proprietary applications, modular interfaces can be built, shared, linked, reused and recombined as needed. The utopia is infinite interoperability. | (8/1/2007) Taking an enterprise view can help to guide an organization to improved planning, decision-making, communications and business direction. It's also time-consuming and requires ongoing investment to support. It's not a one-time quick fix, either. The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the ability to better automate business processes and implement changes quickly. | (7/31/2007) Decades of siloed system design have left most government organizations with antique, rickety systems that don't play well with others. By putting new SOA wrappers on old proprietary applications, modular interfaces can be built, shared, linked, reused and recombined as needed. The utopia is infinite interoperability. | (7/31/2007) Decades of siloed system design have left most government organizations with antique, rickety systems that don't play well with others. By putting new SOA wrappers on old proprietary applications, modular interfaces can be built, shared, linked, reused and recombined as needed. The utopia is infinite interoperability. | (7/31/2007) Decades of siloed system design have left most government organizations with antique, rickety systems that don't play well with others. By putting new SOA wrappers on old proprietary applications, modular interfaces can be built, shared, linked, reused and recombined as needed. The utopia is infinite interoperability. | (7/31/2007) Decades of siloed system design have left most government organizations with antique, rickety systems that don't play well with others. By putting new SOA wrappers on old proprietary applications, modular interfaces can be built, shared, linked, reused and recombined as needed. The utopia is infinite interoperability. | (7/31/2007) It is unacceptable for the public sector to resign itself to losing the most senior or valuable IT employees to the private sector. These employees have the critical skills and institutional knowledge and memory. Further, a continual process of employee turnover involves non-trivial hiring and training costs. The new HR paradigm for retention and acquisition is to develop, deploy and connect. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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