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Change Agents in Government

To innovate and be responsive, the federal government requires change agents -- people working within the system to drive improvements. In this episode, we talk with two accomplished change agents working in the government.

How can a CIO reconcile the demands between technical proficiency and business responsiveness? In this episode, Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat Software, shares ideas for balancing infrastructure and innovation in a dynamic and transformational environment.

Digital transformation is rapidly changing the CIO and IT relationship with lines of business and corporate functions like marketing and finance. In this episode, we explore these issues with Chris Curran, Chief Technologist of PwC who oversees the firm's Digital IQ research.

Chris Hjelm, CIO, Kroger discusses innovations disrupting retail in areas such as digital sales, marketing, operations, inventory, and supply chain.

This episode explores DevOps with background, suggestions, and useful tips.

Alignment between IT and business is a core issue facing virtually every CIO. Different perspectives, constraints, and goals can present obstacles to the business gaining the highest value from IT. DevOps can help.

Formula One racing involves a heady mixture of speed, daring, and technology. Sensors, data, and analytics provide a backdrop for ongoing innovation and improvement, on the race track and in the back office.

Scale and inertia are key challenges facing any Chief Information Officer in the federal government. For this reason, successful approaches to innovation and digital government must consider the reality of life in an agency. For this episode, we talk with John B Owens, CIO for the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Owens explains how his IT organization ensures alignment with end-users, using approaches such Agile development and DevOps.

The CIO role is shifting from provider of infrastructure to customer-facing business partner, while the rise of digital technologies has created an opportunity for Chief Information Officers to assert new importance in the enterprise. Mark Sunday, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Oracle Corp., explores these changes and discusses his role at one of the largest technology organizations in the world.

Information technology in the federal government is large, complicated, and often slow. Our guest, Mark Schwartz who is Chief Information officer of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USICS), wants to change that by applying lean methods and shifting the focus of IT toward consumers inside the government and citizens on the outside. In this show, Schwartz shares his experience with DevOps and other methods to improve IT and enable digital government.