Federal IT Capital Planning and Investment Control (with CD)

PART II

Positioning CPIC as a Global Agency Process

Although the Clinger-Cohen Act was enacted primarily in response to the failures of large single projects, it also sought to improve overarching IT management processes such as strategic planning, enterprise architecture, and portfolio analysis. Framers of the legislation were convinced that an agency-wide perspective was necessary and that only the agency head and senior executive leadership were positioned high enough to engage in the kind of agency-wide, cross-functional visioning essential for identifying innovative ways to use IT to accomplish the agency’s mission as well as its program goals and objectives.

The chapters in Part II describe approaches for integrating CPIC processes and ...