Betsy Gardner

Jun 4, 2024 | governing.com | Stephen Goldsmith |Betsy Gardner |William D. Eggers |Jared Brey

For a city government to furnish high-quality service, engage well with its communities and solve challenging issues, it must operate as an enterprise, not as a collection of discrete agencies. And that approach requires not just application programming interfaces and point solutions but an enterprise system — a technology platform and data-sharing policies that further citywide solutions and enterprisewide data literacy.

Jun 12, 2023 | governing.com | Stephen Goldsmith |Betsy Gardner

Recent waves of federal funding and rapid technological breakthroughs combine to create a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address America’s aging and dangerous infrastructure, but that opportunity is directly confronting the hard realities of government procurement capacity. There are approaches that could help public officials deal with these procurement realities.