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Government Technology
By: Adam Stone
How to get talent in the door, keep them engaged and soften the blow of the retirement wave.

Enterprisers Project
By: Kristin Burnham |
Hardik Bhatt, CIO of the State of Illinois, sought to become the nation’s first Smart State — a process that required reorganizing its 38 IT departments into one, improving government services, and finding new sources of innovation to apply to its revenue model

StateScoop
StateScoop announces the top smart communities in the nation, and Chicago and State of Illinois are on the list.

21st Century
By: Kate DeNardi
Three years ago, the State of Illinois ranked in the last quartile of states when it came to using IT efficiently. After two years on the job Hardik Bhatt, the state’s CIO, has transformed Illinois.

ChicagoInno
By: Utsav Gandhi
Amid the continued budget gridlock impacting the state, one area where Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration has shown positive impact is actually a more technical one