Reports

Most organizations are finding themselves in an Uber moment, as enormous disruption rocks their industry. For many, it’s high time for a wakeup call, given that underlying service lines, process execution, customer interactions, etc. have remained unchanged for decades. Intelligent automation (IA) has a role to play in this evolution. It is the fastest growing technology with the greatest power for disruption. At its most basic, it eliminates mundane, repetitive tasks. At the other extreme, it will begin to replace higher-level cognitive human abilities with a far greater capacity for volume, analysis, accuracy and consistency than can currently be performed by humans. This report (the first in a 2-part series) is one of the most comprehensive you will find on this fast-changing topic. It presents the broad continuum of opportunities represented by IA from the all important perspective of “fit for purpose,” providing 8 considerations for choosing the right IA solution to successfully align with, and execute, your strategy.

This report includes the Total IT Investments for Federal Government by agency.

Our many discussions with government leaders revealed most are not familiar with the prolific work of Drucker – especially, his principles, practices and structured methodologies for enabling government agency executives to meaningfully reinvent their organizations. The coming rediscovery of Peter F. Drucker’s pioneering work in government-agency management is a hoped-for goal of this e-book and for our accompanying conference on Execute Government Reform: Tools, Techniques and Technologies to Ensure Mandate Compliance. Drucker provides answers to many of the mission-critical questions every government agency executive must now address. 

Part II discusses the Trump administration’s plan for reviving the economy while simultaneously attempting to achieve permanent cost-cutting in government.Prior to cutting costs, each government agency will be required to rationally rethink their mission, their results, their true strengths, and more.Without a structured approach to “downsizing,” the wrong things will be cut – the things where performance should be strengthened not abandoned.