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Shell Culp

Shell Culp is a senior fellow at the Center for Digital Government, senior adviser for Public Consulting Group and principal with Almirante Partners. She formerly worked as an agency information officer for the state of California.

"Sharing care information between health provider(s) and those who are helping with housing and other human-services supports holds enormous promise for efficiency and effectiveness of the payers and providers of services as well as for the consumers of those services. So why aren't we sharing more?"
"We hear much less about innovations with people in the public sector. It seems much easier to introduce new technology tools than to innovate existing behaviors, collaboration, and team dynamics, but that is where innovation needs to occur," IT veteran Shell Culp says in a commentary.
Due diligence, proper planning, stable leadership and attention to "soft skills" can help hard projects come to fruition, says IT veteran Shell Culp, The public and private sectors should both learn from the past.
Procurement decisions for state IT projects are fairly well-established and documented — lots of thought goes into how responses to requests for proposals will be evaluated and how the contracts will be awarded. But how do we evaluate the method we choose for implementing a new system? How do we make the “best decision for our family?”
Shell Culp is a senior fellow at the Center for Digital Government and has worked on California's health benefits exchange system, case management and payroll system.
While the economy is heating up, talent in the technology sector is tightening — and government will feel the pinch as much, and maybe more, than everyone else. Innovative retention strategies will be key areas where we will see some growth this year.
Following is a commentary by Shell Culp, a senior fellow with e.Republic's Center for Digital Government. Culp was a longtime IT leader in California state government.
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The year gone by suggests the impetus for new ways in government appears to be growing, writes Techwire contributor Shell Culp.
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Constituents should have high expectations of government. Agencies should also inspire confidence in people that they’re up to the job. When we think about cybersecurity, we should rightly expect that government will diligently protect citizen data, such as the sensitive information we not-so-voluntarily provide to the departments of Motor Vehicles, Social Services and Public Health.
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We may have reached an important limit to a particular kind of growth at a particular pace typified by Moore’s law. This does not mean innovation is dead.
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Agile presents an opportunity to improve collaboration and trust, but it’s not the only way.
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Shell Culp worries that the sound bite nature of civic apps is like treating symptoms and not the actual disease. Worse, civic tech possibly is creating problems while intending to provide solutions.