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Public CIO August 2006

Feature

The Best Resource Government Isn't Using
By Chad Vander Veen The 1990s were glorious years.
Projects Without Portfolio?
By John Erik Garr Faced with juggling scores of IT initiatives while operating under the scrutiny of multiple stakeholders, public-sector CIOs increasingly look to information technology portfolio management (ITPM) to demonstrate the value of IT.
Blind But No Longer Fragmented
By Alison Lake The prevailing attitude projected by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and increasingly adopted nationwide ...
EVM: Information Technology's New Safety Net
By Joel M. Koppelman and Quentin W. Fleming Agencies at all governmental levels are working to simultaneously modernize and consolidate IT systems, ...
Dialing for Progress
By Lawrence Knafo "A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy" -- James Madison

Book Review

The Role of the CIO -- Enabler and Visionary
By Gregory Smith In his new book, Straight to the Top: Becoming a World-Class CIO, author Gregory Smith provides a course of action for would-be CIOs. In this excerpt from his book, Smith discusses the role of the CIO as enabler and visionary.

Commentary

Five Years Later
By Paul W. Taylor The trouble with normal is that it always gets worse.

Introduction

Sassy Software for CIOs
By Tod Newcombe

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