For obvious reasons, every government enterprise depends highly on its IT infrastructure. A sound IT organization allows for building the proper pathways towards information sharing, cybersecurity, talent management and development. Broadly, there exist five models towards IT organization. The adoption depends on CIOs’ preferences. The most centralized system is the fully-unified one which is ideal for organization where the security needs are maximum and external threats may arise for crucial intelligence. The next one is a similarly unified system but with a business-unit supervision. This works best when transition is required for applying change management techniques. The third is a unified organization where specialized IT activities are excluded. This may be considered when specialized functions have due importance and centralization roadblocks need to be avoided. The third modelis creating shared Centers of Excellence (COEs). When individual business units need autonomy on operations, this one is ideal. To end it, is the Lighthouse COE model. This works best when complete freedom is required in functions such as user interface design, DevOps or agile.

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Uploaded Date:16 August 2018