E-Gov in the COTS marketplace

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Gunderson, Chris
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2007-08
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Think about it: The coin of the realm may vary, but success at pretty much any business boils down to “buy low, sell high.” Modern business is about information processing across a widely distributed ecosystem of suppliers and demanders to do just that in new and creative ways. The more efficiently an organization conducts its information transactions, the more effective its processes. Software is about telling computers how to process information. It follows, then, that the way a modern business — any business, even the federal government — deploys its software on its networks has a big impact on its ability to execute its mission. In other words, good business is good ebusiness. Government leaders “get this” and increasingly make speeches and write policies that say as much. So, why does it typically take an agency as long as three years to move from recognition of a burning need for some information processing capability to accepting delivery of the software that might — or might not — provide it? Further, why are the commercial, off-the-shelf) segments of that software delivery often several versions out of date? After all, it typically takes less than 90 days for a large company to take delivery of the first increment of new software, and the embedded COTS segments in that delivery will certainly be current versions. Here’s how government is using open technology development to cross this knowing-doing e-government gap.
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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The article of record may be found at: http://www.fedtechmagazine.com/article/2007/10/e-gov-cots-marketplace
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