Artificial Intelligence In Government Procurement

This course emphasizes four main ideas that are central to understanding how AI can impact government operations. - Different types of AI work differently and are suitable for different tasks. - AI can automate, augment, or even add new work, depending on how it is used – each of these creates value in different ways and requires different ways of measuring success. - While AI is already making government operations more efficient and effective, the greatest benefits will come from entirely new ways of working, not just from improving existing processes. - Government is good at piloting new technologies like AI, but can often struggle to scale, because scaling takes different technical and organizational capabilities that are critical to success. Join us and discover how AI applications, such as natural language processing and algorithms, can revolutionize government processes, making them more efficient, transparent, and downright impressive.

Lead government innovation with skills to detect change early, overcome constraints, and harness AI's power—turn disruption into mission-driven success. Government organizations don’t have the luxury of standing still. Missions change. Budgets shrink. New technologies emerge. In this course, you’ll explore how successful agencies overcome constraints—legal, structural, cultural, and technological—to drive meaningful innovation. Michael Raynor, co-author of The Innovator’s Solution and author of The Three Rules, partners with John Johnson, UMD’s Lead Faculty in Agile and Product Management, to reveal how public sector leaders can sense change early, organize for innovation, and deliver results that matter. Through real-world case studies—from software factories and health exchanges to drone warfare and cloud disruption—you’ll examine how government organizations adapt and thrive in the face of disruption, and how AI is amplifying both the challenges and the opportunities. This course is designed for anyone working in or with government who wants to lead change, not just react to it.