Information Technology: OMB Leadership Critical to Making Needed Enterprise Architecture and E-Government Progress

Abstract

Enterprise architecture development, implementation, and maintenance is a basic tenet of effective IT management. Used in concert with other IT management controls, they can greatly Increase the chances for optimal mission performance. We have found that attempting to modernize operations and systems without an architecture leads to operational and systems duplication, lack of Integration, and unnecessary expense. Our best practices research of successful public and private-sector organizations has similarly identified enterprise architectures as essential to effective business and technology transformation.3 Expanded use of e-government, which Involves people, processes, and technology, is one avenue that the federal government is pursuing to transform how it does business Internally and externally with citizens, private-sector businesses, and state and local governments. In fact, the president made e-government expansion one of the five key elements In his management and performance plan for mailing government citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 21, 2002
Accession Number
ADA399850

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Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Identification Systems
  • Information Systems
  • International Trade
  • Local Governments
  • Management Personnel
  • National Governments
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Small Business
  • Standards
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics