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Strengthening
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Kelly
Lewis. JD/MBA
klewis@tccp.org
www.techquestpa.com
Strengthening
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Government Technology Commission Offers
Governor-Elect
Corbett Roadmap for Operational and Budget Cost Savings in
2011
Harrisburg,
PA - Upon
taking office, Governor-elect Tom Corbett and the newly sworn-in
General Assembly will face the biggest structural budget deficit
our Commonwealth has ever experienced. This
unprecedented deficit is coupled with stubbornly high unemployment,
escalating health care costs, educational under-performance and its
sky-rocketing price tag, more than $5 billion needed to balance the
Unemployment Trust Fund and State Employee/Teacher Pension Funds
and a persistent multi-billion dollar under-investment in
technology and infrastructure. Correcting these
colossal and complex issues will be the leadership test of our
generation.
Today,
all levels of Pennsylvania government spend an astounding $100
billion per year in the aggregate. The state's
General Fund budget spends $28 billion, K-12 spends over $24
billion; and the rest of our tax dollars are spent by agencies,
townships, towns, boroughs, cities, counties, higher-education and
authorities spend over $48 billion. Oftentimes, cost
saving efforts focus solely on the $28 billion state General Fund
budget, when the potential for far greater savings justifiably
appears to be in the $72 billion budgeted outside of the state
General Fund.
"Just
like companies do, government needs superior technology-enabled
systems to deliver improved government services, but also to
efficiently collect government revenues," said Kelly Lewis,
President & CEO of TechQuest Pennsylvania. "We
believe wise, leveraged and strategic investments in
technology-enabled systems will make possible the best top to
bottom review of all government expenditures and revenues, coupled
with transparency and participation by all citizens and all elected
officials in the improvement of our government.
Expertly deployed, strategic technology-enabled systems transform
government operations by identifying and demanding efficiency,
improved services and large cost-savings."
This
year, working with the State Senate Management and Cost-Savings
Commission, TechQuest Pennsylvania identified more than $2 billion
in immediate, reoccurring cost-savings that can impact the
immediate state budget, from published House and Senate reports.
In
September, The
Pennsylvania Government Technology Commission was formed
specifically to help the Governor-elect and General Assembly tackle
the greatest challenges facing Pennsylvania
government. "There
are dozens of completed studies, many of which detail how strategic
technology can help transform government into a more affordable and
responsive organization that provides better service to citizens
and companies," said Lewis, a former
state representative, served on the PA Senate Government Cost Study
Commission.
In its
Executive Summary released today, the Pennsylvania Government
Technology Commission is proposing:
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Strengthen investments in Strategic Technology to Transform
Pennsylvania -
Information
Technology has transformed the operations of companies and
governments. Today, technology and innovation
advances are increasing exponentially. But,
government is slow to embrace change in order to realize the cost
savings, improvements and resource re-allocations enabled by
strategic technology. More than ever, government
needs strategic technologies that quickly improve services and
deliver immediate and long-term cost-savings.
o Establishing
the Governor's Technology Advisory Board to assist Governor-Elect
Corbett's transition team and House and Senate leadership as they
explore ways to drive change and cost-savings through strategic
technology.
o Establishing
the Office of Continuous Improvement (OCI) with a focused mission
of leading organizational change and driving cost-savings realized
by taxpayers.
o Establishing
a cabinet-level State Chief Information Office (CIO), as has been
done in other large states with full authority for statewide
Information Technology budgeting, operations, procurement and
policy.
o Improve
and Streamline the Procurement Systems for Acquisition of
Technology and Professional Services - In order to timely achieve
the desired delivery of improved government services and their
resulting cost savings, we must speed-up and vastly-improve how we
buy technology and professional services including
technology consulting services.
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Transform Pennsylvania's economic development strategies toward a
$650 billion economy as fast as possible -
Pennsylvania government policies must be
focused on growing Pennsylvania's $550 billion economy to $650
billion as rapidly as possible. We cannot tax our way
to prosperity. We cannot spend our way into
prosperity. We cannot cut our way to
prosperity. We cannot talk our way into
prosperity. We live in exponential times, the
Exaflood and the exponential growth of technology, communications
and innovation. We face unprecedented global
competition. Our public policies to attract capital
investments and grow our economy must be the best in the
nation!
Too
many of our state public policies are the worst or near-worst in
the nation when it comes to attracting global investment
capital. Even the policies that are good must get
better. At all times, we must transform our
government policies to make Pennsylvania the most attractive state
for global investment. We live in exponential times
and companies will invest where they are welcome, treated-fairly
and get the best returns on their investments.
For a
copy of the Commission Executive Summary, email klewis@tccp.org.
TechQuest
Pennsylvania is a state wide commitment by thousands of dedicated
professionals focused on keeping Pennsylvania a national and global
leader through the deployment of advanced technology and its
required infrastructures and workforces in order to grow prosperity
for all Pennsylvanians. www.techquestpa.com or 570.510.7745
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November
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