What an Empowered CIO Can Bring to the Cloud-Savings Table
June 27, 2014
Grazed from NextGov. Author: Rebecca Carroll.
At its best, cloud computing offers agencies a cheaper, more efficient, faster, more secure way to administer the information technology systems they’re already running. Whether it actually works out that way often hinges on who’s in charge, how much authority they have and the breadth of their perspective, industry executives say. Congress has been debating the best role for agency chief information officers, with broad — but not universal — calls for granting CIOs full authority over their budgets.
“It’s all about the business case,” Lt. Gen. Peter Cuviello, lead client partner for Deloitte Consulting LLP, told Nextgov during a discussion about cloud savings. “It’s not about technology; it’s about the business case. You have to have a business case that the agency agrees to, and then you’ve got to stick to it.”…
Cuviello, formerly Army CIO, said CIOs have to have a plan they execute and against which results may be judged. “They’ve got to be a full partner with the business of the agency that they belong to,” he said. “If they’re just the IT guy — go make the telephones work, go make the email work — that won’t work. Transformation will not happen.”…
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