How State CIOs Are Focusing on the Enterprise

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.

Team Work

82% of surveyed state CIOs and senior-level IT decision-makers collaborate with business to develop both business and IT strategies, plans and tactics.

Smashing Silos

68% of those surveyed said the state has an enterprisewide business strategy, with an IT strategy that supports it.

All Systems Go

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.

Savvy State, Part I

59% said business has a good understanding of how to use IT to consistently improve.

Savvy State, Part II

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.

Shared Resources

53% said there is a platform or platforms of standard business processes, applications and data that provides input for investment decision-making enterprisewide.

Directional Signal

53% said the state has a roadmap to align infrastructure and app deployment within each agency, as well as throughout the enterprise.

Planning for Success

77% said that processes and governance are in place to support IT project prioritization, decision-making, funding and other initiatives.

Singular View

56% said that there is a single system used to track requests, provide status to business/IT and capture data related to demand management.

Incomplete Effort

Only 35% measure benefits realized after a project has been completed.

Status Quo

44% said they spend more than 80 cents of every budget dollar on maintaining existing systems, limiting the opportunity for innovation.