InterOptimability™: Human Services 2.0
Preparing Child Welfare for the 21st Century Information Technology Revolution
(National Conference 2007)
The 2007 conference, InterOptimability: Human Services 2.0, explored the newest strategies and practices for creating integrated customer-centric human service systems to support children, families and communities. Interoperability allows human service agencies to build effective programs and practices around the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information about children, families and communities. Interoperability also challenges many fundamental programmatic, organizational and management assumptions and structures. To truly succeed, workers, managers and executives must be able to create knowledge and make optimal decisions grounded in a data-driven culture.
Stewards of Change coined the term InterOptimability™ to describe how organizations can learn to integrate and optimize the benefits of these evolving technological solutions. InterOptimability™ will help organizations maximize their ability to learn about, plan for, and leverage the benefits of interoperability to create dramatic systemic change, enhance performance and improve outcomes for children and families. The 2007 conference provided an initial forum to explore the future opportunities and challenges associated with preparing, managing and implementing InterOptimability™ within child welfare and human services. The conference format utilized a highly interactive, multi-sector approach, including presentations by leading thinkers and nationally recognized subject matter experts.
Conference Attendee Testimonial
Rebecca McElroy, Legislative Aid – US House of Representatives – Representative Jim Cooper (TN 05)
“…the group of people present and contributing to this conference was extraordinary. I feel so fortunate to have made the many wonderful contacts I did.”