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For immediate release: April 24, 2007 Contact: Shawn Karrick
NASCIO Releases White Paper and Research Summary on Government Transformation through Change Management
(Lexington, KY) - The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) is pleased to announce the release of its new white paper "Transforming Government through Change Management: The Role of the State CIO".
The white paper reviews contemporary ideas surrounding the subject of organizational transformation, presents a state perspective on the issue, and provides the state CIO with relevant recommendations and calls to action. The accompanying research summary provides a short overview of the research findings presented in the white paper. The white paper and research summary are available at: www.nascio.org/publications.
"Continual change is the norm for both government and private industry," said South Carolina CIO Jim Bryant, PhD, co-chair of NASCIO's Enterprise Architecture Committee. "We've designed this white paper and research summary to be a resource for our state CIOs, and we are planning further work in this subject area, which leverages enterprise architecture discipline."
The paper illustrates that change is an ongoing process that requires organizations to become change competent. The paper emphasizes that as with enterprise architecture, the best approach to organizational change involves incremental, step-by-step transformation that is effectively delivered through valued relationships involving all stakeholders.
"CIOs must see themselves as change agents," said Utah CIO Stephen Fletcher, co-chair of NASCIO's Enterprise Architecture Committee. "As CIOs develop their management plans and strategies for implementing those plans, they must also have a strategy for moving their organizations toward that new vision. It is no surprise that the most significant challenges and enablers to organizational transformation are not technological, but rather relational. One of the strongest points made in the paper is that organizations don't change-it is people within organizations that change."
NASCIO is the premiere network for state CIOs and an effective advocate for technology policies at all levels of government. NASCIO represents state chief information officers and information resource executives and managers from the 50 states, six U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia. State members are senior officials from any of the three branches of state government who have executive-level and statewide responsibility for information resource management. Representatives from federal, municipal, and international governments may join as associate members and private-sector firms and non-profit organizations may join as corporate members. For more information about NASCIO, visit www.nascio.org.
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For more information, please contact Eric Sweden, NASCIO Enterprise Architect, at (859) 514-9189 or esweden@AMRms.com.
AMR Management Services provides NASCIO's executive staff. For more information about AMR visit http://www.AMRms.com.
