RD76 - Quarterly Report on the Status of the Implementation of Information Technology Reform - April 1, 2005


Executive Summary:
Strategic Plan Update

Efforts are underway to update Virginia in the Global Digital Economy: Commonwealth of Virginia Strategic Plan for Technology, published in September 2002 by the Office of the Secretary of Technology on behalf of Governor Warner. That document set out bold transformational initiatives covering eight topic areas, of which four are now under the purview of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Commonwealth and the IT Investment Board, and will be addressed by the update now in progress. The remaining four have been championed by Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology (www.cit.org) and incorporated into that agency’s business plan.

As per the requirements in § 2.2-2007(1) of the Code of Virginia, the update process is being directed by CIO of the Commonwealth Lemuel C. Stewart, Jr., with input from the Council on Technology Services (COTS). Final approval will be rendered by the IT Investment Board.

To synchronize statewide IT strategic planning with the new statewide strategic planning process outlined by the Council on Virginia’s Future (CVF) and promulgated and executed by the Department of Planning and Budget (DPB), the plan update will be presented for IT Investment Board approval at its April 13 meeting. This schedule allows Executive Branch agencies appropriate opportunity to use this update in preparing their individual agency strategic (business) plans and strategic IT plans in advance of the June 15 due date.

The advent of the current organizational structure for Commonwealth IT operations and governance—VITA, the CIO of the Commonwealth, and the IT Investment Board—has created new venues and channels for IT strategic planning in Virginia. To take full advantage of those new opportunities, a comprehensive, inclusive process for creating the next Commonwealth IT Strategic Plan, covering the period 2007-2010, is being developed. That process, to be initiated in early fall 2005, will involve both top-down policy direction from the IT Investment Board as well as bottom-up input and initiative development from customer groups and other stakeholders. To remain synchronized with the new CVF/DPB statewide strategic planning process, IT Investment Board approval and publication of the new IT Strategic Plan is targeted for April 2006.