Delivering on a commitment in the recent Open Government Partnership: National Action Plan for the United States, he is calling for a large-scale transformation in how agencies maintain their records.

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There have been a lot of changes in the digital world recently, which is a perfectly accurate observation but fails to present the full scale of the transformation.

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Analysts argue that, if Mr Pfeiffer had handled expectations better and been more honest about the scale of the transformation he was embarked upon and the long-term benefits it would bring, Compaq's shares would not now be getting such a hammering.

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Not many people are both digitally savvy enough to develop a bold vision for the future and really know how to drive a transformation on this scale.

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Yet the use of collateral transformation on such a wide scale also carries risks.

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In the end, anchor institutions may present the best hope for neighborhood transformation simply because of their scale.

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Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.

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Transformation is also difficult simply because the size and scale of the executive branch have grown so much over the past century, vastly increasing the odds that things can go wrong.

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Where we crave sweeping transformation, however, all the current bill offers is those pilot programs, a battery of small-scale experiments.

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