McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The OECD sees the global economy improving. Central banks’ strategies are diverging, with some cutting rates and others raising them. China announces a major stimulus, and the US Federal Reserve cuts rates.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

With the most recent Federal Information Security Modernization Act report cataloging 11 major incidents among government agencies in fiscal 2023, there is a clear need to continue improving overall cybersecurity. A key component is the federal identity credential and access management program created in 2009. FICAM supports modernized security policies and solutions, allowing risk-based decision-making, automating identity and access management processes and moving access protections closer to

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The 2024 presidential election is in two weeks, and early and absentee voting is already well under way for many states in an election that, by all accounts, promises to be a close race. This past week, TargetSmart, a Washington D.C.-based data firm, launched a dashboard to track 2024 absentee and early voting across states and counties. Using data generated by the new tool, American City & County pinpointed which 10 counties across the U.S. have cast the largest number of early and absentee

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Organizations have more data than ever, but scaling it remains a challenge. Here’s how companies can benefit from the data dividend and become truly data-driven businesses.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Author: Bob Lavigna, Sr. Fellow – Public Sector, Ultimate Kronos Group “We all feel the pain.” That is how one local government HR leader described the challenge of attracting and retaining talent in today’s intensely competitive labor market. City government employees today have different expectations about where, how, and why they want to work.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Passwords get a lot of hate, and most of it is warranted. They’re not easy to remember or manage, especially for state and local agencies that lack access to password managers or single sign-on technologies. Users often take matters into their own hands by using the same passwords at work that they use for their personal accounts — which may or may not be compromised — or by falling back on simple, easy-to-remember phrases and numerical combinations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Introduction In Modernizing tax systems with AWS , we briefly touched upon infrastructure and application modernization using microservices and serverless architectures. We hear from multiple tax and labor agencies about their desire to move to API-based architectures and adopt new technologies. In this post, we dive deeper into these areas and discuss benefits, approaches, and best practices for building modern tax and unemployment insurance (UI) applications using microservices.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Emirates NBD partnered with McKinsey to identify growth opportunities and expand its talent—becoming an AI and advanced-analytics-driven bank.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

While private sector organizations are racing to implement use cases for artificial intelligence, federal agencies are carefully weighing the opportunities they can leverage to take advantage of the emerging technology. The federal government is a bit more hamstrung when it comes to AI. Limited budgets and underskilled staffs are challenges that private organizations must contend with, but not at quite the same level as federal agencies do.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 21, 2024

We recently came across an online report by a local NPR station that began with a headline that stated that, “Philadelphia and Wilmington (are listed) as some of the least safe cities in the country, according to a new report.” It followed up by saying “While Wilmington ranks as one of the least safe cities, it has some of the largest number of law enforcement employees per capita.

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Speaker: Noratek

Maintaining parks and recreation facilities efficiently is no easy task, especially when faced with scheduling issues, aging infrastructure, and inconsistent inspections. Join us for this insightful webinar where we explore the most common challenges departments like yours are facing and how digital tools like CityReporter can help you streamline operations, ensure safety, and make better use of your resources.

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GovPilot

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Linden, NJ expands their partnership with the government management software provider to streamline operations and government services in the municipality.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Please confirm the confusion a few of us seem to have. Is GCC CoPilot pushed out a year to Q42025?

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