{"id":45400,"date":"2021-09-20T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scoopmedia-develop.go-vip.net\/statescoop\/?post_type=bio&#038;p=45400"},"modified":"2023-01-23T03:41:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T08:41:10","slug":"disruptive-technology","status":"publish","type":"bio","link":"https:\/\/scoopmedia-develop.go-vip.net\/statescoop\/bio\/disruptive-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDisruptive technology\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ed Toner, Nebraska CIO<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God, I hate that. States are the worst about this. They talk about disruptive technology and they forget about all those fundamental things that run their business. If I wasted my time on disruptive technology instead of making sure that I was doing all the basics extremely well, then I\u2019m wasting the taxpayers\u2019 money. It\u2019s like every football coach I ever had said: \u201cGreat teams do ordinary things very, very well.\u201d What am I trying to disrupt, anyway?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is part of StateScoop and EdScoop&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/scoopmedia-develop.go-vip.net\/statescoop\/special\/digital-transformation-special-report\/\">special report on digital transformation<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Toner, Nebraska CIO God, I hate that. States are the worst about this. They talk about disruptive technology and they forget about all those fundamental things that run their business. 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