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  • Tough Crowd
  • Posted By: Will Wilson |   May 30, 2008
  • from Governing's Managing Technology Conference in Seattle Bill Gregoricus, a senior consultant in Tennessee's Office of State Planning and Policy, had an interesting--and somewhat disheartening--explanation ...
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  • Managing Expectations
  • Posted By: Josh Goodman |   May 29, 2008
  • from Governing's Managing Technology Conference in Seattle When I worked at the Big Belly Deli, I had a philosophy when someone called in a carry-out ...
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  • Debunking Conventional Lessons Learned
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   May 29, 2008
  • One of the mantras you keep hearing at this conference is how managing technology isn't really about about good technology, it's about good management. Or, as our publisher Peter Harkness likes to say, when it comes to IT, the focus used to be mostly on the "T." Now it's mostly on the "I."
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  • Children's Health Rankings: Some Surprises
  • Posted By: |   May 29, 2008
  • There were few shocks in the Commonwealth Fund's first-ever state-by-state "scorecard" on children's health systems. Based on 13 criteria, the overall leaders were Vermont ...
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  • Gov. Christine Gregoire: The Importance of the "Why"
  • Posted By: Zach Patton |   May 28, 2008
  • After an extremely interesting pre-conference session on city 311 systems, Governing's Managing Technology conference officially kicked off this evening with an address from Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire.
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  • Building a Better Mouse Trap
  • Posted By: Mark Stencel |   May 28, 2008
  • from Governing's Managing Technology Conference in Seattle Making Web sites and other electronic interfaces easier to use needs to be more than an aesthetic afterthought. ...
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  • 311 is not as easy as 1-2-3
  • Posted By: Ellen Perlman |   May 28, 2008
  • So we just finished a special pre-conference session on city 311 systems, and some of the panelists cited a common problem: You set up this great 311 system, and then what happens? Other departments and jurisdictions want to horn in on your success without paying their fair share or doing the work!
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  • Emergency Rooms as a Measuring Tape
  • Posted By: |   May 27, 2008
  • First it was Massachusetts and its stat on emergency room use: E.R. visits declined when the state's universal health insurance initiative fell into place. ...
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  • Straightening Up the Med Mal Mess
  • Posted By: |   May 26, 2008
  • Doctors are flocking to Texas. The reason--or the explanation that's become the perceived wisdom--is caps on malpractice awards. Since 2003, when the state legislature imposed a ...
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