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GRANTEGY: Don’t Leave Your Grants to Chance Series

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

The Importance of Strategy A good strategy provides a clear roadmap, consisting of a set of guiding principles or rules, that defines the actions people in the business should take (and not take) and the things they should prioritize (and not prioritize) to achieve desired goals (Watkins, 2007). 2007, September 10). 2016, February 24).

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How Texas Is Cultivating a Data-Savvy Workforce

GovLoop

Having worked in Texas state government for more than 15 years, Chief Data Officer Neil Cooke understands firsthand the difference that data can make. Cooke began working for Texas in 2007, when he took a job at the Department of Agriculture, first as a systems analyst and later as a management analyst and project manager.