How State CIOs Are Focusing on the Enterprise

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.