Why Should Local Government Leverage Fractional Resources?

We are at a very unique time in local government where more and more can be accomplished by leveraging technology than ever.  Local government has lived through years of the pandemic and team members maintain all government services through these difficult times. Now technology is capable of enabling every aspect of local government operations. The ability to provide live audio and video participation of every public meeting as well as closed captioning and transcripts with AI summaries withing minutes of every meeting is now the expectation.

Today, city and county managers have the ability to build short form video updates for their community where they or their department heads film a 30-60 second video with key community updates in a matter of minutes, guided by AI scripting and a teleprompter built into their software on a laptop and to get that edited video out to the city or county website, social media accounts and all local news media multiple times per day with very little effort. This type of proactive and accurate communication is what citizens expect.

Community members have more access to broadband and wireless devices than ever enabling most city and county services to not only be web enabled but to be optimized for mobile and even provided by an app. Every local government has the ability to provide faster and more effective services today than ever.

But to accomplish these goals, local government needs to have leadership that can build a technology strategic roadmap, the ability to budget for, procure, and implement rapidly changing technology and to do so in a secure and well planned out way. Local government needs talented leadership and technology resources to accomplish this but at a time when federal dollars and grants are shrinking and not growing.

I have been asked more times in the last year than ever, whether I could help local government leaders with fractional leadership to assist them and this is why we have founded Fractional Source. The type of resources that are very hard for small and medium sized communities to attract, retain, and to afford are the exact resources they need to accomplish these goals. We now have the ability to provide Chief Technology Officers (CTO), Chief Information Officers (CIO), Chief Information Security Officers (CISO), and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO). These technical leaders are in high demand and can now be accessed through Fractional Source. We have experts with both government and private sector technology leadership experience. They work from as small as 10% of their time to 25%, 50%, 75% of their time or other negotiated agreements.  We have agreements in place that allow this to work for local government where not only do they get a talented resource for an affordable cost, but they get the knowledge and experience of someone who has implanted all sorts of technology solutions for local government and are also familiar with building the strategy, communication and implementation as well as change management for the front line employees who are affected most.

In addition to technology leaders, we also have Chief Human Capital Officers, Chief Financial Officers, City / County Managers, and other key talent that can help government execute and grow.

If you have any questions at all, please reach out to me at tj@thefractionalsource.com to set up some time to discuss what your challenges and needs are and how we can support you.