Innovation In Compliance With Tom Fox

Jen Snyder is the chief evangelist at GovQA, a technology company providing compliance software for governments. Tom Fox welcomes her to this week’s show as they discuss the compliance challenges facing governments, and how her company’s software is helping combat those challenges. Government Challenges Tom asks Jen to explain why management of government requirements is so critical and difficult. “In the government industry, everything you're doing is being done with government money, so everyone has the right to understand what's being done with that money,” she remarks. She adds that many of the challenges the government faces are because the private sector is ahead in terms of documentation: while the private sector’s documents and records are digitized, the government’s are still on paper. The pandemic has mandated a remote workforce, but adapting to a new normal is not familiar to government culture, Jen remarks. Data Governance With data governance, there is both the tactical solution and the strateg