Business Intelligence in the Public Sector

Business Intelligence in the Public Sector: "When participants at the April 2004 E-Gov Knowledge Management Conference reflect on the event, they must think we were truly prescient. It was late 2003 when we were planning the conference. I had committed to teaching a tutorial on building knowledge management environments. While looking for a case study for discussion, I read some of the headlines coming out of Asia regarding the avian flu. After noticing these stories, I decided to pick a potential avian flu crisis as the case study for our tutorial. In February the Washington Post carried many similar stories like �Bird Flu Strain Is Discovered in Chicken Flock in Delaware� and �Maryland Bans Live Poultry Sales as a Precaution.�"