Any savings will accrue to the entire enterpriseand not to the individual agency. That means agencies will have more dollarsavailable for projects they convince the ITD are important to the enterprise. At least, that's the goal, said Paul Carlson, director of the ITD projectoffice. One of the ways to get there, something that the ITD will encourage,is for agencies to partner with each other on projects that have mutualadvantages. A more cooperative atmosphere will replace the stovepiped approachof the past, where agencies kept their projects to themselves.
Budgets willfollow the technology lead.
However, he said, Iowa is nowhere near that yet. As the new processcomes into play, there will be the inevitable turf battles, but Carlsonis confident people will come around. It was never expected that this program would change things overnight,Varn said. What will be needed is a period of analysis to see how the projectsstarted under the ROI program progress and, most importantly, if governmentresources are allocated more effectively as a result.