INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity. Exposure Draft

Abstract

If managed wisely, investments in information technology (IT) can enrich people's lives and improve organizational performance. For example, during the last decade the Internet has matured from being a technical novelty to a national resource where citizens can visit the Library of Congress or file their tax returns. Some organizations have realized substantial improvements in processing data and information by switching from centralized mainframe computing to decentralized personal computers linked by local area networks. The ability of software applications to locate and correlate relevant data in a data warehouse permits organizations to discover unknown fiscal or physical resource relationships and thus provide appropriate assistance where there had been none. The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996' was enacted to address many of the problems related to federal IT management.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA391207

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Information Systems
  • Investments
  • Lessons Learned
  • Management Personnel
  • Money
  • Organizational Structure
  • Project Management
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).