What are the lessons from the pandemic you think will stick? That state government can be and has to be more adaptable than we ever thought, that’s…

This interview was conducted May 26, before Jim Edman announced his departure from the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications. He’s now a state cybersecurity coordinator at the…

What are the lessons from the pandemic you’ll take with you? One that’s going to stick with me is during the pandemic we saw a lot of…

What lesson will you take with you from the pandemic? The pandemic was super interesting. GIS was front-page news. People were looking at whatever your news channel…

What lesson will you take with you from the pandemic? For us, the pandemic validated some of our strategic priorities we outlined several years ago: data analytics,…

What lesson will you take with you from the pandemic? The pandemic really became a shift of focus and for my team it became more of a…

What lesson will you take with you from the pandemic? The most significant takeaway, and the most transformative, is around cloud computing and the agility that cloud…

What lesson will you take with you from the pandemic? Our biggest one is moving to the cloud, which we had already started prior to the pandemic.…

What lesson will you take with you from the pandemic? It strengthened many of my previous convictions. One is don’t put off anything that you can do…

What lesson will you take with you from the pandemic? Making time to strategize and plan can make all the difference not only in execution but buy-in…