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December 05, 2002
The Tide is Going Out
This week alone five state CIO's have left the service of their states: myself, Richard Varn of Iowa, Larry Singer of Georgia, Judy Teller of New Jersey, and Rebecca Heidepriem of Wisconsin. I think that three of those are due to Governor changes. I expect more in the coming weeks. These changes are likely to bring some changes to the complexion of eGovernment across the states. Tom Davies writes about this in the latest issue of Governing Magazine.
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SmartUtah Tech Expo
This morning I spoke at the SmartUtah Foundation's Tech Expo in Box Elder county. Here's a copy of my slides. The talk was very well received and I had a number of people express their regrets at my resignation. I also received a nice award from SmartUtah for "outstanding leadership in the promotion of electonic communities in Utah."
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The Real Time Enterprise
These two articles from CIO Insight, one a case study on GE and one by Cap Gemini's Christopher Meyer speak about the benefits of real time enterprise. There's a follow-up interview with GE's CIO, Gary Reiner as well. GE plans to save $10 billion with their real-time management systems. Of course, that remains to be seen, but its clearly a trend that cannot be ignored. Meyer says its "unavoidable." My paper on the "Road to the Future" discusses the tactical steps that an enterprise must take to even be in a position to use real-time management systems to drive business decisions. Among them:
- Infrastructure (network, data center, server, and desktop) consolidation and normalization
- Security
- Enterprise storage
- Reducing the number of databases and normalizing schemas
- Reducing applications and creating multi-use applications that share data
Any enterprise wishing to emulate GE, Siebel, and Cisco's real-time management initiatives needs to take stock of these other issues first and solve them or they're just wasting their money.