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Government Transformations – Delivering Real Value
Entering 2015, it’s clear that governments continue to be under pressure to provide citizen services in a more effective manner. Many governments have still not seen revenues return to...
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125 Billion Reasons to Consider Counter Fraud Solutions
The Federal government spent $125 billion on fraudulent and inappropriate payments in 2014. The US General Accountability Office (GAO), who wrote the report, also noted that last year’s total was $19...
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How to kick-start your cognitive journey
“Where do we start with cognitive?” This is a question many leaders across industries have been trying to answer. Cognitive computing is here – and this innovative capability is...
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Moving Tax Administration Forward
The world is changing. I suspect that this statement is older than recorded history. But it has never been truer. Futurist Tomas Frey pointed out in 2013 that society is likely to go through more...
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Better Tax Administration Through Better Use of Data
“We have all this data, so why don’t I have the information I need to make the decisions I need to make?” This statement could potentially come from C-Suite executives in either the private or public...
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Adding value to the tax ecosystem
The term “ecosystem” has been heard in some tax administration circles for more than 10 years now but the concept has yet to take hold or even be fully understood by tax administrators. In the “old”...
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Deployable Technology for the Future of Healthcare
Healthcare organizations are transforming in order to lower costs, improve outcomes and increase access. Our Government and Military clients around the world are both the largest drivers and the...
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Data Driven Government – Unlocking Insights and Value for Citizens
Governments suffer from an excess of data – most of which is rarely used after being collected and stored. The amount of data generated on a daily basis (over 2.5 Billion GB) is staggering – and a vast...
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“If governments are smarter in leveraging technology and data, will that mean...
This was the first question posed to our closing panel by a participant in our recent Data Driven Government conference in Barcelona, Spain. So much for warming the panel up with an easy or “softball”...
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Blockchain for Government?
There is much hype around Blockchain. Most of this is about the use of Blockchain to underpin the Bitcoin crypto currency. Whilst IBM are not interested in Crypto currency, we are very interested in...
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Mission: Possible! – New IBV study on the future of cognitive in government
Welcome to the age of cognitive computing, where intelligent machines simulate human brain capabilities to help solve society’s most vexing problems. First movers in government and other industries...
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BOLD with Blockchain
In my Blockchain for Government post I explained that there is much hype around Blockchain, mostly about how it underpins the bitcoin cryptocurrency. IBM has recently made some bold moves to facilitate...
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Blockchain, where’s my stuff?
Even though a physical supply chain may be integrated, the supporting information systems are often fragmented. Members of the supply chain – ranging from the source of raw materials to the consumer –...
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Proving Provenance with Blockchain
Provenance (from the French provenir, “to come from”), is the chronology of the ownership, custody and/or location of an (historical) object. Provenance could be described as an immutable audit trail...
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Social Workers Set a New Course
Social workers change lives. They assist families in need and protect vulnerable children. They help the fragile elderly and the disabled remain independent and in their homes. They guide the mentally...
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Cloud – Disrupt, or be Disrupted?
Business & Government is going through a time of unprecedented digital transformation. The disruptive forces – driven by cloud, mobile and social – change the how they derive insight from data,...
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What the Public Sector can learn from Uber…
When most people hear the word Uber they think about a mobile app that allows them to book car services. However, Uber is much more than that. Uber is a dynamic peer-to-peer market making platform that...
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Can the Millennial Generation Rescue Government?
Can the Millennial generation help lead the charge in transforming governments in the new digital era? Despite efforts to transform services through technology, government organizations are trailing...
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Deployable Technology for the Future of Healthcare
Healthcare organizations are transforming in order to lower costs, improve outcomes and increase access. Our Government and Military clients around the world are both the largest drivers and the...
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Data Driven Government – Unlocking Insights and Value for Citizens
Governments suffer from an excess of data – most of which is rarely used after being collected and stored. The amount of data generated on a daily basis (over 2.5 Billion GB) is staggering – and a vast...
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