On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you feel like the public sector is that far behind the private >> sector in automation? I haven't really noticed a large disparity, do >> you have examples? I'm curious. > > - IRS > - Various State Tax Agencies > - Every DMV ever known > - New Jersey Toll Authority (obviously) > > I can give a thousand local examples for the areas I've lived in. I > know Portland has a whole information API thing going on right now, > which is great, but I think that is by far the exception.
I totally agree that there is some major inefficiency in government agencies, no doubt. What I was asking about is how it compares to private enterprise, especially amongst large corporations that have a lot of project inertia. I think about all those companies still running ancient mainframes, all the doctors using paper charts, etc. I remember my second start up company where I wrote, basically, CMS software that would also allow for easy management of design as well as content and whatnot. We had one customer we were working with that was a smallish group with HP. HP actually had a license for Vignette, but groups within HP had to set aside budget to pay for the IT group to hire an installation expert, pay for the modules that they would need that didn't come stock and then pay for hosting within IT...and probably wait for 6 months to actually get it set up. Since we were less than $5K, they were able to set up a site in discretionary spending and have it up and running within a week. So giant technology company that spent millions on software and yet couldn't actually deliver what the little groups actually needed. Seems to me that that sort of inefficiency is rife in both the public and private sector and that as a company/organization grows, the ability to be nimble and go in new, more effective, directions decreases. I'd say that the problems with government agencies tends to be more with their size/age rather than the fact that they are public agencies. Could be wrong though. Juda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337409 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
