The holders of the posts are as follows:
- CIO - Chief Information Officer - Vivek Kundra
- CTO - Chief Technology Officer - Aneesh Chopra (Also see Aneesh Chopra named federal CTO)
- CPO - Chief Performance Officer - Jeffrey Zients
Showing posts with label CIO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CIO. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Creating accessible and accountable government in the US
I came across a post on CIO Insight.com called 'Obama's Triad takes on government IT'. In it the author Robert Otto talks about the big challenges facing the Obama administration’s CIO, CTO and CPO and goes on to put forward elements of a potential vision going forward over the coming years. It's pretty idealistic but sensible stuff. What I can't help wondering is if they actually achieve something like this whether the UK would finally bite the bullet and work in a more joined up fashion too.
The holders of the posts are as follows:
The holders of the posts are as follows:
Sunday, 16 November 2008
The path to CIO - as a black woman - to be or not to be?
The recent achievements of Lewis Hamilton and Barack Obama got me thinking about role models again. Those of you who have been with me for awhile will know that I'm very interested in the challenges that women face working in IT and there is a lot of emphasis on role models.
It's a current ambition of mine to become a CIO and there just aren't that many females, let alone black females (the 'double whammy' as someone recently said to me). So imagine my excitement awhile back on hearing the success of Gail Roper - a black female CIO working in US government. Do you know of any others?
Anyway, back to my path. My original plan to get there was to go through the ITSM route (which I really enjoy) yet recent events mean that I've had to put that plan aside and remap my path as I walk the project management route (which I also enjoy). After some deliberation about the move I've decided that, actually, it is completely the right thing to have done. Why? Whether you read ITIL, CIO, or pretty much any other technology (with career focus) website out there; there are constant references to 'the business'. Alignment. Integration. That's where we are at. So what better move for me than to step out of IT and into the business in order to get a better understanding of 'the other side' with which we are to integrate?
More on this subject another time. For those that would say race and gender don't matter in such things - as much as I wish they didn't - the fact is they do. I hope that as I move through both my professional and personal life that people will look past gender, past race - and see me. A little ITIL imp :)
It's a current ambition of mine to become a CIO and there just aren't that many females, let alone black females (the 'double whammy' as someone recently said to me). So imagine my excitement awhile back on hearing the success of Gail Roper - a black female CIO working in US government. Do you know of any others?
Anyway, back to my path. My original plan to get there was to go through the ITSM route (which I really enjoy) yet recent events mean that I've had to put that plan aside and remap my path as I walk the project management route (which I also enjoy). After some deliberation about the move I've decided that, actually, it is completely the right thing to have done. Why? Whether you read ITIL, CIO, or pretty much any other technology (with career focus) website out there; there are constant references to 'the business'. Alignment. Integration. That's where we are at. So what better move for me than to step out of IT and into the business in order to get a better understanding of 'the other side' with which we are to integrate?
More on this subject another time. For those that would say race and gender don't matter in such things - as much as I wish they didn't - the fact is they do. I hope that as I move through both my professional and personal life that people will look past gender, past race - and see me. A little ITIL imp :)
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