Mobile App Development in Highly Regulated Industries Report Released
The Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information Management has just published my report, Mobile App Development in Highly Regulated Industries: Risks, Rewards and Recipes. I co-authored the report with my former graduate student, Paul Simons, who serves as the CEO of iHear Network. Executive Summary Mobile computing has the potential to be as disruptive to […]
Big Data and Local Government
I will be leading a webinar for the Alliance for Innovation on Big Data and Local Government on April 29, 2014. I will be joined by Chris Kelly (Director of Information Technology for Olathe, KS) and Matthew Esquibel (IT Division Manager for Austin, TX). You can read my report on Big Data here.
Smart Cities Financing Guide – Smart Cities Council
In collaboration with my colleagues, David Swindell, Jonathan GS Koppell, and Kendra L. Smith, I authored the Smart Cities Financing Guide for the Smart Cities Council. This guide highlights 28 of the most promising financial tools — including alternatives to the traditional funding mechanisms municipalities have used for decades. It also includes: Detailed analyses of each option based […]
Human Trafficking Solutions at DESRIST 2014 Conference
Kena Fedorschak, Srivatsav Kandala, Rashmi Krishnamurthy, and I have a paper accepted at the Ninth International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology. The paper, Data Analytics and Human Trafficking, highlights our efforts toward building IT solutions to combat human trafficking at the ASU Decision Theater. Human trafficking is recognized internationally as an extreme form […]
Big Data goes to Germany and Slovenia
I will be giving two talks this week on my Big Data report. The first presentation will take place at the Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München on March 12 (See here for more details). I will then fly to Slovenia to give a talk at the Faculty of Information Studies in Slovenia on March 14.
Coverage on the Big Data Research Report
The IBM Center for the Business of Government report on Big Data that I authored has been covered by several press outlets. See below for sample stories.
Our Fragile Emerging Megacities: A Focus on Resilience
I recently authored an article for Planetizen. Unless you have been hibernating, you have heard about urbanization trends and have spent time reflecting on what this might hold for the future of communities, cities, nations, and the planet as a whole. The world’s total urban area is expected to triple between 2000 and 2030—urban populations are […]
Intelligent City Chapter for Atlas of Cities
My chapter on Intelligent Cities will appear in the Atlas of Cities (Princeton University Press) edited by Paul L. Knox (Virginia Tech). A city, like any organization, thrives or fails depending on its ability to process signals from its environment. Cities have long been subject to shocks because the information systems designed to signal impending events […]
Open Innovation in the Public Sector – Challenge.Gov – Public Administration Review
Ines Mergel and I have a paper accepted in Public Administration Review. Implementing Open Innovation in the Public Sector: The Case of Challenge.Gov As part of the Open Government Initiative (OGI), the Obama administration has called for new forms of collaboration with stakeholders to increase innovativeness of public service delivery. Federal managers can utilize Challenge.gov to […]
What Kind of a Consultant Are You?
My blog post on management consultants (Nov. 2010), was featured in the Summer Issue of the Management and Consulting Association’s monthly strategy newsletter, The Consultant.