Are You Looking at The Wrong Part Of the Problem?

Norman Jacknis
The Startup
Published in
5 min readSep 29, 2020

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In business, we are frequently told that to build a successful company we have to find an answer to the customer’s problem. In government, the equivalent guidance to public officials is to solve the problems faced by constituents. This is good guidance, as far as it goes, except that we need to know what the problem really is before we can solve it.

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Norman Jacknis
The Startup

Senior Fellow, Intelligent Community Forum; Columbia University Faculty. Former Director, Cisco IBSG Public Sector & CIO Westchester County, NY