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

摘要

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.