Government Finance Officers Association 2005 in San Antonio, Texas

I’ll be keynoting the Government Finance Officers Association annual conference later this month, addressing a few thousand financial officials for state and municipal governments from throughout the US and Canada.

There’s plenty of opportunity for innovation in this sector — if folks can get engaged, creative and are willing to effect change. Much of it involves getting people in government to think differently about their role — we have an opportunity to “run the business better,” “grow the business” and “transform the business,” through innovative ways of working, collaboration, information sharing. Not to mention the opportunities for policy transformation and renewal that responds to the rapid economic, global, demographic and workforce change occurring all around us.