At the initial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Technology, the committee identified priority issues. The following observations are taken from those points as well as comments from follow-up meetings. The role of information management is so critical to the success of government that it requires leadership at the highest levels of state government. Valuable information needs to be shared among agencies, but roadblocks,both technical and organizational, exist. Currently, program objectives and technology initiatives have a tendency to not be connected.
New technologies continue to develop rapidly.
Large technology projects are high risk and need careful monitoring to better ensure success. The consensus of the Cabinet Technology Subcommittee has been that we as a State must become more coordinated and strategic in our management of Information Technology. The CIO should be an Assistant Director of the Department of Administrative Services. The CIO should be the leading advocate for the use of information statewide and would be responsible and accountable for initiating, monitoring, and directing appropriate technology initiatives that have an interagency or statewide impact. The person serving as the CIO should have responsibility for oversight of all of the resources of the current Division of Computer Services.