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FOR MASSACHUSETTS:FOR MASSACHUSETTS:What’s Going on Out There?What’s Going on Out There?

Jerry Mechling

Harvard UniversitySeptember 8, 2009

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• Time for the defense…

China Prepares to Hunker Down for Three Years to Weather the Global Economic Crisis ChinaMatters

• But not only defense?…

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity.” Rahm Emanuel, Obama Chief of Staff

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Harvard Policy Group for Network-Enabled Harvard Policy Group for Network-Enabled Services and GovernmentServices and Government

PK Agarwal, State of CaliforniaReg Alcock, University of ManitobaMichael Armstrong, Corpus ChristiPhil Bertolini, Oakland County, MichiganGeorge Burgess, Miami Dade CountyAneesh Chopra, U.S. CTOSharon Dawes, SUNY AlbanyKaren Evans, former U.S. OMBStephen Fletcher, UtahMaryantonett Flumian, Univ. of OttawaSteven W. Jennings, Harris County, Texas

Randy Johnson, Hennepin County, MNGopal Kapur, Center for Project MgtGopal Khanna, MinnesotaLarry Koskinen, U.S. Dept. of TreasuryTimothy Loewenstein, Buffalo County, NEAnne Margulies, MassachusettsJerry Mechling, Harvard UniversityJane Smith Patterson, e-NC, North Carolina Lisa Schlosser, U.S. EPAMarlin Schneider, State of WisconsinTeri Takai, State of California

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GOVERNANCE:feedback + authority

PROCESS:specialization + scale

rules rules rules rules rules rules

hierarchy

VALUE as:productivity

equitylegitimacy/transparency

risk/uncertainty

Process + Governance Process + Governance Value Value

What are the What are the major movesmajor moves??

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4. Infrastructure extension.

Eight Major Moves . Val. Feas.

1. Delivery: online/civic engagement. 2

2. Production:integration/shared services. 3

3. XBT/industry reconfiguration. 1

5. Feedback/transparency.

6. Massive collaboration.

7. New and open standards.

8. New patterns of authority.

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What’s key in Massachusetts?...What’s key in Massachusetts?...

• Questions/examples about the “out there” priorities?• What should Massachusetts do?• What should Massachusetts avoid?