President Bush is contemplating naming a federal CIO to be positioned in the White House's Office of Management and Budget. The CIO would preside over the government's technology pursuits concerned with the Internet. The task is too big for one person. A federal CIO would have 14 agencies and more than 1,200 individual departments under her purview. One person would be responsible for the online workings of the entire federal government-an assignment unprecedented in scope.
Organizational problems are too deep.
A federal CIO will be unable to fundamentally revise the budget process, which is needed to format necessary cross-agency cooperation. Centralizing the CIO role is not progress. The President is considering moving IT learning to a central location even as businesses are decentralizing IT talent to meet customer needs. Cecilia Claudio, senior vice president and CIO of Farmers Insurance Group, is no stranger to keeping the troops happy. Claudio will share her vast knowledge on talent management at Richmond Events' The CIO Forum Financial Services and The e.forum - Financial Services .