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Lighting the Way

By Clark, Timothy B
Publication: Government Executive
Date: Wednesday, December 1 2004
HEADNOTE

Technology leadership awards celebrate bright ideas and what we do with them. BY TIMOTHY B. CLARK

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In this issue, we celebrate innovation at federal agencies: their deployment of information technologies to improve operations and provide a better return, and better services, to the taxpayers.

Reading about the winners of the 2004 Government Technology Leadership Awards, one is struck by the scale of some of the innovations and the implicitly large task that goes with their adoption-gaining acceptance in bureaucratic cultures resistant to change. It is precisely because the deployment of technologies requires rethinking organizational structures and established ways of business that technology is no longer under the control of technologists, but rather the concern of senior management, in both career and political ranks. Solving a problem is what counts, with technology as one piece of the puzzle.

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