Like many people, I watched the new You Can See Everything documentary last weekend. As I listened to discussions about what Elizabeth Holmes meant when she claimed Theranos could perform certain functions, I found myself thinking less about Theranos and more about a dynamic I've observed throughout my career in government technology procurement. The Theranos story is obviously an extreme case. But the pressures that contributed to it are not entirely unfamiliar. Technology i

Are We Finally Ready to Admit CCWIS Isn’t Failing—It’s Being Built the Wrong Way? After two decades inside local and state child welfare systems, and leading at the executive level on a complex statewide CCWIS implementation, we’ve seen the full spectrum. The vision. The investment. The challenges. Now, building a practice focused on human services and technology, we are having more candid conversations with state leaders than ever before. And the question we keep hearing is