Maximizing Federal IT Dollars: A Connection Between IT Investments and Organizational Performance

Abstract

Evaluating how best to invest government information technology (IT) dollars means making choices. Should agencies strengthen infrastructure with energy-efficient servers and increased network bandwidth, purchase software to cut costs, increase collaboration, or invest more to meet stakeholders' future needs? Is there a connection between the way agencies invest IT dollars and successful mission accomplishment? In this article, the authors show a connection between IT investment allocations and organizational performance in federal government agencies, and demonstrate how higher performing agencies invest differently in IT than lower performing agencies. Federal managers can compare their organization's IT investment portfolio with high-performing agencies and compare their investment allocations with other federal organizations with similar missions to determine optimum IT investment allocations for their agencies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA539724

Entities

People

  • Ennis C. Whitehead
  • Shahram Sarkani
  • Thomas A. Mazzuchi

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Cost Reductions
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Engineering
  • Federal Budgets
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Investments
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Governments
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Administration
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States Government

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