Big job, short timeframe: Missouri's IT consolidation.
Government Finance Review › Vol. 25 Nbr. 1, February 2009
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Big job, short timeframe: Missouri's IT consolidation.
With information technology (IT), consolidation can mean anything from forming a committee that oversees IT projects to centralizing hardware and application development. Some people use the word to describe efforts at improving collaboration, and in some cases, it is a euphemism for outsourcing. In 2005, when the newly elected governor of Missouri wanted to consolidate the IT workforce for the executive branch of state government, the first task was to decide what consolidation was going to mean.
Dan Ross, the state's chief information officer (CIO), was asked to create one entity that would take care of the state government's technology needs, providing data across departments and finding ways...See the full content of this document
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