How Automated Testing Helps Improve the Constituent Experience

There is a government focus on enhancing customer experience (CX), particularly in online services right now. The White House Executive Order of 2021 elevated CX as a federal priority, echoed by state CIOs prioritizing digital transformation. This report explores how better CX means enhancing the quality of applications through automated testing of software code inRead… Read more »

Real-Time Care Intelligence Can Save Lives

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one in five adults in the United States — 52.9 million people — live with a mental health condition. Additionally, approximately half of them also have substance use disorders. Government agencies at all levels are taking swift action to provide support — but stigmas, siloed data andRead… Read more »

Modernizing the Citizen Experience With Cloud Identity

Download your free copy of the new report to explore: – The customer identity and access management (CIAM) timeline. – The challenge posed by inadequate CIAM and best practices for improving it with cloud. – How cloud helped the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls modernize their CIAM. The explosion of devices and communication channels in recentRead… Read more »

Improving Application Delivery & Customer Experience Through Cloud-Based Technologies

The value of cloud computing for federal agencies is far more than potential cost savings and the ability to reduce their data center footprint. Cloud has the ability to transform the way employees collaborate across siloed departments, access critical data to make decisions and improve the timeliness of federal services. Budgetary constraints, organizational silos andRead… Read more »

Improving CX in Your Agency Through Contact Center Modernization

There’s a major shift in government to transform the way citizens interact with agencies across a variety of platforms. More specifically, there is a concerted effort to deliver consistent, seamless and personalized experiences. Today, citizens demand intuitive services across voice, social media, chat, SMS and all types of automated self-services. To better understand agencies’ topRead… Read more »

Creating an End-to-End Citizen Experience

Citizens today expect to have control over how and where they consume public-sector services. These digitally savvy customers are increasingly seeking access to services in new ways, sometimes skipping the traditional office visit or phone call altogether. Instead, they’re turning to mobile websites and apps, and social media to connect with the organization of theirRead… Read more »

Making a Business Case for Customer Experience in Government

Good customer experience is much more than achieving customer satisfaction. Regardless of whether it’s coming from the private or public sector, good CX must be: accessible, engage customers on the channel of their choice (digital, in person or voice) and proactive in determining customer needs. Here’s how your agency can make the business case for… Read more »

Making Connections That Matter with Better Public-Sector Customer Service

Governments have made great strides in the past few years to improve the customer experience (CX), in part because of a growing realization of its importance and because of federal mandates such as President Obama’s 2011 customer service executive order. In GovLoop’s recent survey of 176 public-sector employees, results showed that although they still face significantRead… Read more »

A Digital Revolution in Government Customer Experience

Most of the interactions federal agencies have with citizens don’t make national news. We typically don’t hear how easy it is to navigate a government website, request information or sign up for a service, unless that interaction goes awry. Just because we don’t hear about all the positive experiences, however, doesn’t mean there aren’t countlessRead… Read more »

Engaging Citizens and Improving Outcomes: Digital Communication for State and Local Governments

To gauge where state and local governments are in their digital communications, and to figure out better and more efficient strategies to help them reach citizens and drive outcomes, GovLoop partnered with Granicus, a leading public-sector digital communications company, for this research brief and a survey of public-sector employees.

IT Modernization: Correspondence Management

In today’s ever-connected world, constituents have increasingly high expectations that their federal, state and local agencies will provide exceptional service. Many agencies struggle, however, with creating good citizen experiences – particularly in the correspondence management arena. Challenges include siloed departments and disparate systems that complicate the process of answering requests, systems that don’t support automationRead… Read more »

Improving the Citizen Experience With Real-Time Data

Timely and actionable data can tell us a lot about our government, the citizens it serves and whether federal programs are effectively meeting their needs. Not only that, but data can also capture the sentiments of rank-and-file employees who fuel those services and programs. The ability to capitalize on those valuable insights has been anRead… Read more »

Resilient Communities, Efficient Governments

Natural disasters. Budget crises. Significant technological failures. In today’s interconnected world, a single disruptive event can have negative repercussions on a community long after the initial impact. This makes the imperative for a swift recovery a priority for state and local government. The ultimate goal is to make the community resilient to such events; itRead… Read more »

GIS: A Platform for Enhancing Policy and Civic Engagement

Elected officials face the constant challenge of describing complex and intricate policies to constituents. In turn, constituents want to know answers to important questions, such as: how is a policy going to affect our community? How is legislation helping to bring economic development to our district? Has funding been used wisely? For the myriad of… Read more »