It will probably come as a surprise to most Floridians that the state of Florida has been without an agency to oversee the states information technology policy and administration for the past year and without a state chief information officer (CIO).
The previous agency that served in this capacity the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology (AEIT) was defunded by the Legislature a year ago, and hence ended,chanel bags.
If the state of Florida were a corporation, it would be high on the Fortune 500 list. I think we can agree that no large corporation would operate for very long without an organization and CIO responsible for IT at the corporate enterprise level. IT should be treated with the same importance and urgency by the state as by any large corporation.
The good news is that there is a bill before the Legislature (SB 1762) that would create a new enterprise IT agency,Louis Vuitton Online. More importantly, this bill will provide the needed authority for the new agency to be effective which the AEIT did not have,Louis Vuitton bags. This legislation will empower a new single agency to be responsible for many of the IT operations that are common to all state agencies. This is something that has been sorely needed for decades.
The states current operational model is simply not effective.
There are numerous operational systems (or sub-systems) that are not core to agency missions that are still housed in many agencies. These include some human resource and financial systems and utility-type systems and processes such as data centers, email systems, the management and deployment of personal computers, printers and cell phones, technical help desks for state workers,Coach Outlet, and the operation of mail processing centers. These common functions are referred to as enterprise functions.
Indeed,douuo.com/airjordan, the state of Florida has made several attempts over the years to implement enterprise systems. Some of the better known enterprise projects include the states HR system (PeopleFirst), a statewide financial system (Aspire), the consolidation of state data centers and, most recently, statewide email (Enterprise Email). These projects failed (or struggled) in large part because the state was attempting to do things that did not line up with its organizational structure. Simply put,Cheap Toms shoes, no single agency had the necessary authority and accountability to drive these projects to a successful conclusion.
Two decades ago, perhaps the lack of an enterprise approach to IT for state government did not matter quite so much due to limitations of technology.
Today, however, technology and supporting best-business practices have far surpassed the ability of our state to keep up due to our ineffective, stove-piped IT governance model,Louis Vuitton Online.
This is what the Legislature has the opportunity to fix at long last.
The previous AEIT had the correct name the Agency for Enterprise Information Technology. However, it did not have the correct authority. As a member of the Florida TaxWatch Cost Savings Task Force for three years, a member and past chair of the Associated Industries of Florida IT Council and, most importantly, a concerned Florida citizen, I applaud the Legislature for putting forth a bill to create an agency for real enterprise information technology with real authority.
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