Short clip: State of California's distributed organization

Dan Farber: You were saying you have under you over 100 CIOs working on various agencies and departments within the State of California. How do you manage such a large and I guess distributed-across-the-state organization? Teri Takai: Well, it's a challenge. It really is a challenge. There's a couple of things that we do. One of them is that we've been actually gathering those individuals together and getting their feedback, getting their input on the things they would like to see in moving the technology platform forward in the state. But, along with that, we try to establish some underlying processes that everyone uses so that we can begin to use technology in a much more standard way. We can begin to look at the way we use technology across the state. We have instituted, for instance, a five-year IT capital planning process where we ask all of the departments to actually establish a standardized way of reporting the projects that they're doing now, the projects that they're planning. We are asking them to establish a technical architecture. In other words, what are the technologies that they're planning to use now, what are technologies they're going to use in the future?

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