Yet Another Service Profession to be Revolutionized by IT

<p>As in healthcare, here is yet another claim -- of the 'bellicose grandiosity' variety -- that IT will "revolutionize" a service profession.</p><p>From TheHill.com:</p><p></p><blockquote><div class="title"> </div> <div> <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/75965-white-house-blames-inefficient-government-on-outdated-technologies">White House budget director blames old computers for ineffective government</a><br /><span class="author">By Ian Swanson - 1/14/2010</span><br /><br />A big reason why the government is inefficient and ineffective is because Washington has outdated technology, with federal workers having better computers at home than in the office.<br /><br />This startling admission came Thursday from Peter Orszag, who manages the federal bureaucracy for President Barack Obama.<br /><br />The public is getting a bad return on its tax dollars because government workers are operating with outdated technologies, Orszag said in a statement that kicked off a summit between Obama and dozens of corporate CEOs.<br /><br />... “It’s time to bring government into the 21^st century,” Orszag said. “Information technology has the power to transform how government works and <span style="font-weight: bold;">revolutionize the ease, convenience and effectiveness by which it serves the American people</span>."</div></blockquote><br />I really wish that claims of IT and revolutions would cease. Perhaps the word "increase" (as in "<span>increase the ease, convenience and effectiveness by which government serves the people")</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>would be more accurate and indeed less hysterical.<br /><br />When you do hear the "R" word in association with computers, though, think <span style="font-style: italic;">very</span> big bucks for the industry and for the management consultants, and a massive amount of uncompensated clerical work and aggravation for the profession to be "revolutionized."<br /><br />-- SS

Yet Another Service Profession to be Revolutionized by IT

As in healthcare, here is yet another claim -- of the 'bellicose grandiosity' variety -- that IT will "revolutionize" a se...

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