Peter Levin is one of the most down-to-earth CTO’s of a federal agency I’ve ever met – Strike that – he is one of the most straight talking CTO’s I’ve _ever_ met. It’s quite amazing that he is the CTO of a 310,000 (yes – 310K) person organization – the Veterans Administration.
Recently, Peter gave a talk on “Get to Yes” – on Gov 2.0 – To talk about his experience on making Government work and work better. Key points he mentioned:
- The notion of “Getting To Yes” – Only Secy Shinseki can say “No” – Find a way to get to “Yes”
- Transforming from Adversary to Advocacy
- I need to get 300K employees to engage – find a channel – Be present, accessible on the web
- IdeaScale worked well – but there are lots of other tools also out there
- 50K employees participating in this experiment
- 6 Million Unique patients the VA serves
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