State CIO Leadership in Government Innovation and Transformation

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One of NASCIO’s guiding principles is to “promote the CIO as the technology leader who drives innovation and transformation.” To advance this belief, this leadership white paper explores the various structures and relationships of the State Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) role and how these differences impact the CIO’s participation in government transformation and innovation. The NASCIO CIO Leadership Working Group explored these differences and caution that a “one size fits all” approach is not the objective given that there are clear reasons for these variations. We looked at how the role of the CIO might evolve given ‘forces’ that could impact this evolution, such as technology disrupters and innovation. We discussed these ‘forces’ and critical success factors with private sector CIOs to learn how they have evolved their position, authority, and responsibility to support corporate transformation. We prepared this paper as a guide for CIOs, Governors, and other state officials to learn more about the various models that exist and how those models could evolve to support the direction of the enterprise.

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Effective Cross-Jurisdictional Collaboration – Governance is Critical!

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Cross-jurisdictional collaboratives are on the rise. As the number of such collaboratives increases, there are essential ingredients for framing and sustaining successful and even exceptional collaborative arrangements that deliver real outcomes. As NASCIO reviewed successful collaboratives, proper governance continually surfaced as one of those essential ingredients for effective sharing of government information and services and effective employment of technology across two or more enterprises. This issue brief presents examples of effective governance and describes what constitutes effective governance.

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NASCIO Call-to-Action: The Necessity for Maturing Identity and Access Management in State Government

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As state leaders act to streamline services, consolidate IT infrastructure and perform more efficiently, trusted digital identities and their authentication becomes a critical enabler with the digital ecosystem. All levels of government and the private sector, are confronted by this challenge and are working together to create common policy, guidelines, standards, and responsibilities to protect cyber assets and ensure appropriate mechanisms are in place for a coordinated identity ecosystem. This guidance presents the value proposition along with key factors for establishing an enterprise-wide approach to identity management.

 

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What Makes Collaborative Initiatives Work?

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Collaboration is a major part of the solution to sustaining and thriving government organizations and services. But it has to be done correctly so it is effective, can sustain through the life of the initiative’s intent, and can adapt with changing environmental circumstances. No matter what service area, mode of delivery, management area, or technology, collaborative arrangements should be considered as an alternative that may deliver the most effective outcomes.

NASCIO is actively investigating existing collaboratives in order to promote collaborative arrangements across government and to uncover operating discipline and best practices that make for successful collaboratives. These best practices support strategy, governance, program and project management, organization, operations and effective application of technology.Collectively these best practices are imbedded in the enterprise architecture of successful collaboratives.

 

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Effective Transformation and Integration that can Enable Cross-jurisdiction Collaboration

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Enterprise architecture is gaining a new level of interest and investment across all sectors of the economy.  The motivation is grounded in gaining competitive advantage, reaching new levels of effectiveness, and creating an enterprise that is well orchestrated to continually transform.  This need for a complete enterprise-wide discipline becomes even more critical when organizations “join up” to accomplish some purpose, optimize resources, or simply pursue economies of scale.

There is a demand for enterprise architecture and enterprise architects with a comprehensive view of the enterprise that entails all aspects of the business as well as technology.  Universities are responding to this demand through creating courses and complete undergraduate and graduate programs in enterprise architecture.

In this webinar you will receive an overview of Enterprise Architecture as a management discipline, learn about the formation of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO) and hear about the importance of enterprise architecture discipline in guiding the planning and implementation of cross-jurisdictional collaboratives.

Agenda:

  •      – The Increasing Importance and Expanding Role of Enterprise Architecture
    – Cross-Jurisdictional Collaborations
    the important role of enterprise architecture in identifying, evaluating,
    planning,
    implementing and sustaining cross-jurisdictional collaboratives
    – Overview of the Center for Enterprise Architecture at Penn State University
    On-Line and On-Campus Academic Programs
    Areas of Research
    Industry Support
    – Overview of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional
    Organizations
    Establishing the Profession of Enterprise Architecture
    – Questions

Speakers:

Guest Presenter:
Brian H. Cameron, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for Enterprise Architecture
Program Director, Master of Professional Studies in Enterprise Architecture
College of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University
316 IST Building
University Park, PA 16802-6822
814.865.8713 office
http://ea.ist.psu.edu/

Founding President
The Federation for Enterprise Architecture
Professional Organizations (FEAPO)
http://www.feapo.org/
Affiliate Faculty Member
Center for Supply Chain Research
http://www.smeal.psu.edu/cscr

Host:
Eric Sweden  MSIH MBA
Program Director, Enterprise Architecture & Governance
National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)

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Why Should Government Join Up? Why now? What do we gain?

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Maintaining and increasing government service delivery in the current economic circumstances is nearing the impossible. What is the answer? Part of the answer is the formation of collaborative relationships across agencies and jurisdictions to share and in some circumstances consolidate investments. State and local governments can not afford to go it alone. Through collaborative governance structures, jurisdictions can pool funding, increase buying power, remove or reduce redundant investments in technology and actually make significant gains in the quality of service.

 

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Capitals in the Clouds Part III – Recommendations for Mitigating Risks: Jurisdictional, Contracting and Service Levels

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Cloud computing will continue to be an invaluable resource for state and local governments in their efforts to rationalize and optimize computing resources. Cloud computing should be seen as an IT innovation that can support rationalization and optimization of business services as well as IT services. Due diligence prescribes the necessity of exploring and evaluating jurisdictional issues in order to ensure long term sustainability and growing adoption of collaborative government operations in state and local government.

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The Heart of the Matter: A Core Services Taxonomy for State IT Security Programs

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To ensure that IT security remains robust in the current difficult budget environment, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has identified a taxonomy of core, critical IT security services to facilitate the analysis of requirements, sourcing options, and costs for delivering appropriate security. For each of the twelve services that were identified, the brief includes a description, a list of the key activities associated with the service, and a list of tools that commonly support service delivery.

 

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