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Governance professor Beth Simone Noveck, who formerly served as the first White House deputy chief technology officer, believes that “public entrepreneurship” can counter the failures that have dominated public policy design in the United States since the 1960s. Her new book,
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Experts often expend much effort on program design, but once these programs are created, there is usually little fine-tuning of the implementation and hardly any emphasis on measuring whether the desired outcomes are achieved. The US federal civil service, for example, first celebrated as a defense of the “public interest” for its structural insulation from shortsighted patronage and political corruption, has recently come to be viewed by
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CARY – Curiosity is at the heart of human progress. Asking “why?” and “how?” leads to discovery and innovation. As the world continues to face the pandemic, curiosity drives new approaches and delivers new answers to seemingly insurmountable challenges.
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At SAS Global Forum 2021, curiosity and innovation lead to new answers
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CARY, N.C., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Curiosity is at the heart of human progress. Asking “why?” and “how?” leads to discovery and innovation. As the world continues to face the pandemic, curiosity drives new approaches and delivers new answers to seemingly insurmountable challenges.
SAS® Global Forum 2021 is both a celebration of and a roadmap for curiosity in action. The world’s premier analytics conference and a free virtual event, SAS Global Forum 2021 takes place over two weeks in May.
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