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​​The Four Keys to Kansas’s Award-Winning Unemployment Insurance Transformation​

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Secretary Schultz argues the biggest pitfall in government IT is expecting a 'perfect' system at launch instead of perpetual adaptation.
Kansas Secretary of Labor Amber Schultz details the award-winning, record-fast modernization of the state's antiquated unemployment insurance system. She explains the crisis during the pandemic, the four key strategies for success, and how the transformation has fundamentally changed agency operations and culture.

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A state modernization case study about uptime, data cleanup, and delivery discipline.

Kansas's unemployment insurance overhaul reads as an operations story rather than a victory lap. An old mainframe, undocumented code from the 1970s and 1980s, duplicate systems, and the need to reverse engineer processes all point to a program that had lost a clear source of…

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