Analyzing Megatrends: Understanding Operating Budget Pressures & Legacy System Modernization Challenges in Government

Facing limited resources and increasingly rapid technology advances, public service organizations must evolve their processes, systems and infrastructure to embrace existing and impending shifts in government.

Weaver’s professionals outline two of six megatrends that have emerged  as contemporary challenges in government operations:

• Operating budget pressures
• Legacy system modernization
• Improving constituent experience
• Leveraging emerging technology
• Preparing the workforce
• Data governance and management

These megatrends highlight the critical need for governments to adapt processes and technology throughout the various operating functions of their agency. These six trends are interconnected through constant factors that impact business challenges, such as change management, data government and management, workforce capabilities and policy regulations, to name a few.