There are a couple of notable weaknesses here, however. For one thing, there is no standardized approach to reporting on capital projects. Agencies develop reports as needed, but they aren't required to submit any to the budget office. DOT, for its part, uses an automated system that generates progress reports during the construction season, but OMB doesn't request any project status reports from the department. In fact, North Dakota doesn't have a central project management database at all.
Agencies have their own systems with which they are comfortable.
B HR management is extremely decentralized in North Dakota. The positive impact of this is that agencies have long had the flexibility in hiring and making salary decisions that other states are now moving toward. The negative impact is that more centralized data would help work-force planning efforts. At the moment, managers have a hard time distinguishing between an employee who moves from one agency to another and an employee who moves to New Zealand. Decentralization results in some inefficiencies for job applicants as well.