Westerville's Department of Administrative Services was presented an award from GovInvest during the City Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 20. GovInvest is a leading provider of innovative software solutions for government agencies that awards the annual Trailblazer Award to public sector agencies and leaders that leverage real-time data to streamline employee labor management, compensation analysis and benefit cost evaluation.
"GovInvest's Trailblazer Award winners are implementing digital workforce and finance solutions to improve accurate analysis, inform confident decision-making, and enhance transparency," said Max Stoff, Director of Customer Success at GovInvest. "With new opportunities to reimagine outdated methods of analysis, the public sector is rapidly modernizing and turning to cloud technologies. The Trailblazer Awards recognize government leaders raising the bar on using GovInvest's platform to optimize digital government."
The Trailblazer Awards celebrate innovative government agencies and individuals harnessing new technologies, digital strategies, and other modernization methods to improve agency fiscal sustainability. GovInvest is honored to acknowledge the Trailblazers below:
Agency Awards
Government Innovation - Austin, TX; Columbus, OH; Baltimore, MD
Transparency Transformation - Cincinnati, OH; Miami, FL; UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, CA Connected Government - Modesto, CA; Burbank, CA
Unified Analysis - Westerville, OH; Tracy, CA; Monterey Park, CA
Emerging Trendsetter - Independence, MO; Trussville, AL; Portsmouth, RI
Individual Awards
Civic Change Agent: Responsible Pension Management - Chris Forsyth, Deputy County Administrator, Grand Traverse County, MI
Civic Change Agent: Better Negotiations - Christine Spagnoli, Finance Director, Narragansett, RI Civic Change Agent: Fiscal Sustainability - Margaret O'Brien, Director of Finance, Alameda, CA
Partner Awards
National Innovation Partner - Baker Tilly
Regional Innovation Partner - Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP
These award categories exemplify the unique opportunity governments have today to leverage technology, services, and trusted partnerships to better connect agency systems, departments, and stakeholders.
