goverment ITproblem, who is the CIO?
We are winding down from a conversion from a main frame to a client server based application. The biggest problem that I seen wasn't that the CIO couldn't communicate, but that there were so many that thought they were CIO that the IT department was basicatly running in circles trying to make everyone happy. So many changes occured with regard to priorities and who was setting them, that we lost years in the analysit and development stages. We faced all the issues that were raised in the article that I read, but we also faced the issue of there were just too many people calling the shots and nothing would be firmly decided because of it. Priorities changed, then reinstated, then added to. It went on and on.
I have the privliage of relocating because of marriage, and I will not go back into public service because of the last couple years. It has to be better in the private world with regard to decesion making, no matter how cut throat it is.
Dan Miller
