1 State of the States: CIO Priorities, IT Trends and Policy Issues TASSCC Annual Conference August 11, 2009 Doug Robinson Executive Director NASCIO About NASCIO NASCIO represents state chief information officers and information technology executives from the states, territories and D.C. NASCIO's mission is to foster government excellence through quality business practices, information management, and technology policy. Cross Boundary Collaboration Customer Service Enterprise Architecture Strategic Planning Procurement and Sourcing State IT Governance Provision of State IT Infrastructure Legislation, Policy and Directives Frontline in Securing State IT Assets Manage, Deploy, and Develop State IT Resources State CIO State CIO Multifaceted Role of State CIO Emerging Trends in Government Is “tradition” sustainable? Is the role of government being redefined? With fiscal crisis, “Price of Government” is being questioned Forces of Change: inevitable and demanded by citizens Leadership: vision, leading change, guiding Collaboration is King Information wants to be free! Bringing the focus to the “enterprise” Leading change – cultural resistance Cross functional collaboration - across agencies and beyond state government State IT workforce – demands, skills, sources Facilitating efficient, safe exchange of data Managing risks – projects IT investment management Managing and cultivating funding Major Challenges of State CIOs State IT Landscape Today Dealing with the state fiscal crisis – cut costs Continued consolidation - IT infrastructure, services and more IT security and risk! Game has changed Living with the past – modernizing the legacy IT workforce: retirement wave, skills, recruiting Impact from federal laws, cost allocation… Need for innovation and best practices CIOs must help government leaders understand these trends
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State of the States: CIO Priorities, IT Trends
and Policy Issues
TASSCC Annual ConferenceAugust 11, 2009
Doug RobinsonExecutive Director
NASCIO
About NASCIO
� NASCIO represents state chief information officers and information technology executives from the states, territories and D.C.
� NASCIO's mission is to foster government excellence through quality business practices, information management, and technology policy.
Cross Boundary Collaboration
Customer Service
Enterprise Architecture
Strategic Planning
Procurement and Sourcing
State IT Governance
Provision of
State IT Infrastructure
Legislation, Policy and
Directives
Frontline in Securing State
IT Assets
Manage, Deploy, and Develop State
IT Resources
State CIOState CIO
Multifaceted Role of State CIO Emerging Trends in Government
� Is “tradition” sustainable? Is the role of government being redefined?
� With fiscal crisis, “Price of Government” is being questioned
� Forces of Change: inevitable and demanded by citizens
� Leadership: vision, leading change, guiding
� Collaboration is King
� Information wants to be free!
� Bringing the focus to the “enterprise”� Leading change – cultural resistance� Cross functional collaboration - across agencies
and beyond state government� State IT workforce – demands, skills, sources� Facilitating efficient, safe exchange of data� Managing risks – projects� IT investment management� Managing and cultivating
funding
Major Challenges of State CIOs State IT Landscape Today
� Dealing with the state fiscal crisis – cut costs
� Continued consolidation - IT infrastructure, services and more
� IT security and risk! Game has changed
� Living with the past – modernizing the legacy
� IT workforce: retirement wave, skills, recruiting
� Impact from federal laws, cost allocation…
� Need for innovation and best practices
CIOs must help government leaders understand these trends
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IT and Solution Priorities 2009Why Consolidation? The Reality of State IT National Trend: Consolidation
�62% of states are implementing or planning data center consolidation
�14% have completed consolidation initiatives
�Factors driving consolidation– Disaster recovery
– Replication, redundancy and fault tolerance
– Cost savings
– Security
– Access to new technologies for all agencies
– Aging state facilities
Source: “Enterprise Data Center Consolidation in the States – Strategies and Business Justification,” NASCIO, August 2007
State IT Systems as “Legacy” Mission or Business Critical Legacy
State CIO Priorities: 20091. Consolidation: infrastructure, services, operations, resources,
� Over 27% of state IT workforce will be eligible to retire in 5 years
� Who will actually retire and when? Changing?
� Key skills? How best to address the gap?
� Best practices for recruiting and retaining IT workforce. Freeze?
� Recovery Act, HITECH funding, state response
� Stakeholder collaboration to achieve HIE interoperability
� Legal, regulatory and administrative barriers
� Incentives to accelerate EHR deployment
� Data standards and formats
� Security and privacy concerns
States and Health Information Exchange
A top public policy issue for theGovernors. CIOs must be in the game.
Quick Focus on Recovery Act
�States in recession. Massive federal economic recovery package - $250 + billion
�Timelines: “Use it or lose it”
�State implementation now the focus
�Accountability, transparency
�Statewide broadband initiatives
�Opportunity for state CIOs to
advance the enterprise agenda?
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State CIOs and ARRA Implementation
�State recovery website
� Identifying opportunities - silos
�Tracking and collecting data on spending: scope? enterprise solutions? Integration?
�Data Architecture - reporting and flow
�Administrative cost recovery for central services – federal funds
�Broadband Grants – state role
How difficult will it be for states to track and report on Recovery
spending?
9%
33%
16%
27%
15%
0%1. A piece of cake!2. Funds to the states will be easy, but the
local/sub-recipient dollars are the challenge.3. Difficult – Funding limits investments in tracking
and reporting solutions.4. Difficult – Lack of Federal information on grants
is the problem. 5. Very difficult, but we have to do it and do it well. 6. Mission impossible.
For State Members Only – Based on your experience with state information on federal grants and contracts, how much more are states having
to spend on Recovery Act tracking?
0%
6%
91%
3%1. Significantly greater costs, but covered by
federal Recovery Act funding
2. Significantly greater costs not covered by Recovery Act funding
3. The same costs
4. Less costly
State IT Issues to Monitor
� Investments in the “digital infrastructure”
�Legacy systems: renovation/replacement of aging systems and software
�E-records, digital preservation & e-discovery – new risks
�Portals, Web 2.0, social media
�Services in the cloud
� Innovative funding, financing
� Recovery Act projects - implementation
� Continuing state budget issues…2011?
� Driving consolidation, shared services and new IT business models
� Outsourcing: more steering, less rowing?
� Growing demands for transparency
� Shifting federalism: States and the
Obama administration
State IT: A View Forward Closing Thoughts on the Next Decade: Ten Challenges Facing Public Managers
1. Fiscal Sanity2. Crisis of Competence3. Information Overload4. Governing Without Boundaries5. E-Government is Only the Beginning6. Government by Contractors?7. Results Really Do Matter8. Green Leadership9. Security and Privacy in a Flat World10. Expect Surprises