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Clay Johnson made mistakes so others won’t have to. Starting March 16, a free online procurement workshop run through the GovLab Academy will seek to inform government procurement officials of how to avoid critical failure. With a total time commitment of eight hours in four weeks, the course will move fast, avoid the traditional educational model and focus on helping governments achieve tangible results on their current projects, Johnson explained.
Johnson, a 2012 Presidential Innovation Fellow for the development of procurement platform RFP-EZ and the founder of the Department of Better Technology, said the purpose of the course — called Tech Procurement Projects: Making the Supply Chain Work — is to serve as a sort of insurance for those working in government procurement.
“The reason I’m doing it is because I’ve done a lot of stupid things inside of government, saw a lot of things, made a lot of presumptions inside of government and here’s my opportunity to make sure that a group of people won’t make the same kinds of mistakes around procurement innovation that I have in the past and lose precious time,” Johnson said.
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