Why Adaptability Is Critical for State CIOs

Why Adaptability Is Critical for State CIOs

State government CIOs must constantly redefine the way they manage a wide range of IT systems and applications.

69% of survey respondents said their state outsources some of its tech infrastructure operations and 79% do the same for IT apps and services.

63% said they use a managed services model for at least some of their IT operations, and 74% said the same about a shared services model.

68% said their state owns and operates a consolidated data center, up from 55% who said this in 2010.

73% said their state is either piloting or trying out agile (or incremental software development) approaches, or making “widespread use” of these methods—up from 62% who said this last year.

Three of five said at least 40% of their state’s IT systems are legacies, and nearly two of five are allocating more than 10% of their total tech budget to legacy system modernization.

40% said their state has a strategy in place to migrate legacy apps to the cloud, and another 36% said they have such a strategy in development.

Email and collaboration: 91%, Disaster recovery: 85%, Office productivity tools: 81%, Digital archives: 76%, Open data solutions: 73%

53% of survey respondents consider mobile devices and apps as either a “high” or “essential” priority, and 35% said no less than one-fifth of their current apps are “mobile ready.”

72% said their state has adopted a cybersecurity strategic plan, and 77% said they’ve helped create a “culture of information security” within their state government.

47% are either formally discussing, developing, adopting or referencing Internet of Things initiatives in their state’s strategic plan, up from 24% who said they were doing this last year.