By the Center for Digital Government
Challenging economic times have made the difficult job of being a public CIO even tougher. They have also led to a rapid acceleration of IT consolidation efforts nationwide. Consolidation has been a top priority for federal offices, state agencies, cities, counties and school districts for a long time. It's not new that the issue has the attention of top policy officials. What is new, however, is that we are seeing existing projects accelerated and new projects getting started. Jurisdictions that have already consolidated proved to be better able to weather the economic storm, and others are racing to catch up.