USCIO, Steven VanRoekel, Forging a More Efficient and Effective Government - Part 1 from ACT IAC on Vimeo.
It was a good talk and there were some very specific themes that he touched on. One important theme is the question of, "Are we ready?" The 21st centerury needs a 21st century government to keep pace. The people both inside and outside of the government need new and different things. As such the government must change to meet those needs.
I wish I had the link to the Prezi that he used for this discussion. It was really well done. The FCW article identifies a couple other points.
The discussion concerned with sunk costs was right on. Maintaining the old systems and platforms versus delivering new value and figuring in depreciation is important. His point that the operating expenditure when compared to the capital expenditure is out of balance.
It was kind of cool to hear him talk about BusinessUSA and the National Export Initiative.
