Planning for EChange

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Planning for E-Change

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• The National Consortium for Justice Information
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• Dave Usery
• Dallas, TX June 27, 2000

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PLANning for Change

• What is (will be) changing?
• Who or what will be changing it?

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Butterfly effect
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Planning for what exactly?

• What are the variables?
• What are you changing?
• What changes are you reacting to?
• Are you sure that is what is really changing?

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Expected Changes

• What appears difficult now will seem simple with
  hindsight.
• What looks like an insignificant problem now,
  with foresight would be seen as difficult.
• What seems like it should be ignored today will
  be the craze tomorrow.

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Internet applications

• With the Internet your user base will grow
  differently than it has with private networks.
• With the Internet more information can be
  distributed.
• With the Internet the ability to enhance user
  efficiency will be greater.

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Also

• With the Internet your user growth will be
  difficult to control.
• With the Internet your users will be difficult if
  impossible to control.
• With the Internet poor quality information can be
  spread very quickly.

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Internet technology

• Is more quickly developed and more easily
  maintained.
• The skill sets to do the quickly/easily stuff are
  harder to find and keep.

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Your behavior may have to change!

• Similar evolution experienced by the movie
  studios years ago.
• Contract with private sector companies with
  specific skills.
• Contract with individuals with specific skills.
• Develop in-house skills both in the technology
  and the business application.
• People will come and go.

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Feedback Cycle is shorter

• You must have a strong sense of what you are
  attempting to accomplish.
• Mission
• Vision
• Plan
• You must at the same time take more frequent
  measures and adjust accordingly.
• Balancing act!! Long term vision quick
  reaction.

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• People
• Technology
• In that order

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The future is immediate, the effects are long
lasting.