The Initiative for Collaborative Government hosted a series of 2008 events on “Collaboration: An Effective Tool for Government Executives.” These events provided public-sector, private sector and non-profit leaders a forum for discussing mission challenges and potential collaborative government solutions. For the first series of events each seminar examined a different type of collaboration. Seminars consisted of senior government executives who participated in a discussion with an expert speaker and Federal government executive panelists.
The Initiative’s summer 2008 event series included the following seminar topics:
Managing Effective Collaboration with Multiple Service Providers
Senior executives from across the federal government and industry leaders recommend steps that the next administration can take to improve government operations by effectively managing collaboration with multiple service providers.
To kick-off the meeting, featured guest speaker Linda Cohen, Vice-President, Gartner Research and author of the book “Multisourcing: Moving Beyond Outsourcing to Achieve Growth and Agility”, gave a presentation on approaches for governing and managing multiple service providers. Following Ms. Cohen, Patrick Pizzella, Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of Labor and Luis Luna, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Administration and Resources Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, led a panel discussion on navigating the practical challenges of working with multiple service providers in the federal government context.
Collaborating to Maximize Mission Value from Enterprise-wide IT
Senior executives from across the federal government and industry leaders outline the success factors for the consolidation of IT services and encourage other federal leaders to act now to document their enterprise-wide IT management strategy in advance of the next Administration.
To kick-off the meeting, featured guest speaker John Kost, Group Vice-President, Gartner CIO Research Worldwide, presented a “Checklist for Success” for IT consolidation that emphasized the importance of active governance and leadership engagement, as well as the need to define a clear motive, scope and end vision for enterprise-wide IT initiatives. Following Mr. Kost, Molly O’Neill, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Henry Chao, Chief Technology Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shared approaches that their agencies have taken to successfully optimize agency-wide use of IT in support of mission activities.
Enhancing Mission Results Through Information Collaboration
Senior government executives and industry leaders outline the success factors for information collaboration and sharing. The key theme for successful collaboration was the need for trust between the partners.
The panelists for the meeting were Marcus Peacock, EPA Deputy Administrator and Dr. John Loonsk, Director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS. Tim Young, Deputy Administrator, Office of E-Government and Information Technology, OMB provided executive commentary.
For additional questions about the 2008 series, please contact us via phone at (703) 227-4959 or email us at info@collaborativegov.org .
