I hear a huge sucking noise. I think it's the sound of growth in IT productivity and cost-effectiveness at the federal gov't.
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Management and Budget (OMB) is upholding the tenets of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. The budget and performance integration initiative outlined in President Bush's management agenda reinforces this performance-based budget orientation. Thus, federal program management is quickly moving into a new era. In FY2003, IT projects that do not have a solid business case by October 2002 will be subject to strict spending controls or may not receive funding.
Welcome to the world of results-based procurement. OMB recently targeted 1,000 major IT projects worth $18B that needed business cases in order for agencies to receive proper funding. As of June 2002, approximately $9B in major IT projects remain on an "At Risk List" still trying to make the business case for FY2003.
To make better IT investments, OMB plans to eliminate or consolidate programs that overlap with the Bush administration's 24 e-government initiatives. With the revisions to OMB Circular A-11, performance metrics are also becoming central to the federal IT capital planning and investment control process. Program managers and business developers will need to understand how to construct winning business cases to receive IT investment capital to meet the business goals of both government and industry.
To learn more about how the Clinger-Cohen Act is being enforced and to hear firsthand how the federal IT program management process is being transformed, please join us on July 23, 2002 at the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D.C., for a one-day FSI Executive Conference: What You Need to Know About Business Cases - Helping Your Customers Get to Green.
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