Financial Systems Modernizations: How to Accelerate Value and Boost Savings
July 2010
This Issue Brief captures recommendations from experienced former Chief Finance Officers and Chief Information Officers for accelerating value and reducing costs during financial and other IT system modernizations. It contains a host of useful approaches to improving efficiency and effectiveness in modernizing and implementing IT systems.
Critical Success Factors for Large, Complex Information Technology Projects
May 2010
This paper offers government executives a set of practical success factors that can help prevent the problems that often hobble large technology implementations. Author Patricia Healy, a CGI Initiative Fellow and Executive Consultant at CGI, makes the key point that large-scale IT projects cannot be approached merely as technology efforts. Rather, she says, they “are, first and foremost, major change management initiatives that alter the way an organization operates, including what work it performs, by whom, where and using what processes.”
A Path for Optimizing Federal Financial System Implementations
May 2010
To help develop a more agile approach to meeting the demand for more and better data and the accelerated pace of change, the CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government is building a vision of next-generation management. Our first product in that effort is “A Path for Optimizing Federal Financial Management Systems,” written by CGI Initiative Fellows Vincette Goerl and Patricia Healy. It addresses the need for more agility in management of financial system projects.
Sustaining Jobs After the Stimulus: Building on Broadband
Partner: George Mason University, Department of Public and International Affairs
Author: Dr. Darrene Hackler, Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs.
One of the questions bubbling among federal, state and local government leaders and observers interested in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is: How can we sustain jobs over the longer term after the stimulus money runs out?
One approach that federal, state and local leaders can find ample evidence to support is to invest in broadband connectivity in the communities that most need them. In her paper, “Sustaining Jobs After the Stimulus: Building on Broadband,” Dr. Darrene Hackler details the potential for broadband investment not just to create jobs now but also to serve as a sustaining artery for jobs in the long term.
