How State CIOs Are Focusing on the Enterprise
State CIOs are tasked with taking proactive steps to ensure that IT efforts are current and properly aligned with the business.
82% of surveyed state CIOs and senior-level IT decision-makers collaborate with business to develop both business and IT strategies, plans and tactics.
68% of those surveyed said the state has an enterprisewide business strategy, with an IT strategy that supports it.
67% said that there are processes and governance in place to ensure that the enterprisewide IT strategy remains current while being aligned with business and communicated effectively.
59% said business has a good understanding of how to use IT to consistently improve.
59% said it’s generally known which IT decisions should be made on an enterprise level, and which should remain the jurisdiction of individual agencies.
53% said there is a platform or platforms of standard business processes, applications and data that provides input for investment decision-making enterprisewide.
53% said the state has a roadmap to align infrastructure and app deployment within each agency, as well as throughout the enterprise.
77% said that processes and governance are in place to support IT project prioritization, decision-making, funding and other initiatives.
56% said that there is a single system used to track requests, provide status to business/IT and capture data related to demand management.
Only 35% measure benefits realized after a project has been completed.
44% said they spend more than 80 cents of every budget dollar on maintaining existing systems, limiting the opportunity for innovation.