Federal 100: Randy Rodriguez
Name: Randy Rodriguez
Title: Managing Director and Group Lead for the Accenture Federal Digital Studio
Company: Accenture Federal Services
Making space for innovation. Rodriguez provides strategic direction for a studio that seeks to connect federal agencies with new design methods and new ways of thinking about innovation. More than 30 agencies have used the studio to tackle challenges that range from national security to health care, and it is expanding to add rapid prototyping and applied intelligence capabilities. The Agriculture Department has turned to the studio to help it transform its rural development program, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Navy have used it to improve their mission-critical systems — all with the greater goal of creating a culture of collaboration.