by Andrea Di Maio | October 5, 2011 | Comments Off
Through my analyst coverage of social media, cloud computing and – more recently – smart government, I am coming across a consistent number of cases where government IT departments are struggling to establish, affirm or defend their relevance to the rest of the business. This is not a new problem, and has often been considered [...]
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Category: IT management Tags: choice, consumerization
by Andrea Di Maio | March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
This week I heard an interesting story about a government organization that issues grants of different types and has recently innovated the assessment process for the proposals it receives. The process involves assessors from government, industry and academia, who used to gather at a physical location, to perform the assessment: this consisted of reading proposals, [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, iPad
by Andrea Di Maio | November 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
One of my last one-on-ones at the Gartner Symposium in Cannes was about how to rejuvenate programs around green IT. Not how to make IT greener, but how to use IT to make business processes more environmentally sustainable. This is also known as the 98% problem, since it is common knowledge that IT contributes for [...]
Category: green IT Tags: consumerization, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | September 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
An interesting trend that we have been watching over the last years is the unstoppable force of consumer devices that make their way through corporations, as users demand the same sleeker and cooler devices that they experience in their personal lives. Probably the best example is the iPhone. While IT departments were choosing corporate smartphones [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: consumerization, iPad, iPhone
by Andrea Di Maio | December 21, 2009 | 9 Comments
Although I said some time ago that I did not like the term government 2.0, I have surrendered to its popularity among government clients as well as vendors, to the point that Gartner now has its own definition Government 2.0 is the use of IT to socialize and commoditize government services, processes and data. Reading [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: consumerization, government 2.0, open government, operational technologies
by Andrea Di Maio | May 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
Earlier today I gave a presentation on web 2.0 and social media to a group of IT officials from one of the Canadian provinces. the audience was quite lively and interactive and they shared with me some insights about their experience with social media. They are amongst the few (see previous post) who do not [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook
by Andrea Di Maio | April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments
Yesterday I posted a conversation with a colleague about whether government organizations (and parliaments in particular) should use consumer social media also for internal purposes. I thought I’d share the rest of our email conversation, as I suspect this is quite exemplary of discussions several government clients are having. Here is what my colleague said: [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook, LinkedIn, parliament, social software, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
Yesterday I participated in an interesting discussion with Gartner colleagues about how to deploy collaborative and social networking capabilities in public sector organizations. In particular we were discussing the IT strategy document of a parliamentary organization. A colleague of mine said: The only thing that’s missing is not working on or adding collaborative / social [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook, LinkedIn, parliament, social software, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | April 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
Earlier today I had a conversation with a client from a UK local authority about the impact of social media and web 2.0 on the workplace. I made my point that it is important to break the boundary between personal and professional profiles if one wants to leverage the power of social networking (as I [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook, web 2.0
