Unionized, 9 to 5 government bureaucrats who can barely operate their own laptops managing complex IT projects? What could possibly go wrong with that? Rauner was also pretty stupid thinking all you had to do was throw a bunch of modern hardware at a government agency to bring it into the 21st century. With that approach all the old systems are never retired and the state will pay twice as many admins to now maintain two systems. A new software platform may cost 60 million to install, that’s the easy part. But I guarantee you it costs 600 million and… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Unionized, 9 to 5 government bureaucrats who can barely operate their own laptops managing complex IT projects? What could possibly go wrong with that? Rauner was also pretty stupid thinking all you had to do was throw a bunch of modern hardware at a government agency to bring it into the 21st century. With that approach all the old systems are never retired and the state will pay twice as many admins to now maintain two systems. A new software platform may cost 60 million to install, that’s the easy part. But I guarantee you it costs 600 million and… Read more »