Gold Stevie® Award for Technology Team of the Year
The American Business Awards honored the Jeffco Innovation Team in the category of Technology Team of the Year with a Gold Stevie® Award, the top award. The Innovation Team inside of the Business Innovation & Technology department provides digital services, business intelligence, business analytics, and pilots emerging technologies.
Team members collaborate with other county organizations and external partners to deliver innovative technologies and business process improvements for employees and constituents. This team specializes in problem solving, data-driven decision making, digital experience, ideation, and streamlined service delivery. These are a few of the team’s chief accomplishments over the last 18 months:
- Launched a Business Intelligence program to support departments with data-driven decision making to improve county services.
- Facilitated process mapping and ideation workshops with individual departments to identify strategies to streamline their services.
- Collaborated with Motor Vehicle on an innovative chatbot solution that answers over 60% of the chats without escalation.
- Generated over $2.1 million in savings for Jefferson County with the migration to T-Mobile as a singular cellular service provider.
NACo Achievement Award for Innovation Internship and Fellowship Programs
The Jefferson County Business Innovation & Technology department has been recognized with an Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo) for their Innovation Internship and Fellowship programs. The awards honor innovative, effective county government programs that strengthen services for residents.
The internship and fellowship programs offer college students and recent graduates the opportunity to gain valuable work experience and to bring transformative technology and business process improvements to the county. These programs are a strategic way for Jefferson County to address critical business needs by recruiting and developing a first-class workforce. The interns and fellows lead exploratory projects to identify creative new solutions and technologies for employees and constituents. In coordination with departments across the county, these programs have provided opportunities to research, evaluate, and pilot innovative opportunities in areas such as business intelligence, cybersecurity, and robotic process automation.
Learn more about Innovation at Jeffco and read more of our success stories.