Governance, whether for IT or other government resources, is the framework through which organizations make choices about how to employ IT resources to produce value. Within NYS there are examples of different structures for IT governance already in operation:

• Agency level: Conceptual Design for Evaluating and Managing Opportunities, Workers’ Compensation Board
• Domain level: The Integrated Justice Advisory Board
• Multi-agency level: The Economic Security and Human Services Advisory Board

CTG is working with key IT decision-makers throughout all levels of New York State government to explore if and how existing IT governance capability could be enhanced to better serve a wide range of stakeholders. A review of IT governance structures within New York State, IT governance experiences nationwide, lessons from the private sector, and frameworks developed in the academic literature are being used to inform the process. The goal of the project is to provide recommendations to the New York State IT community and key stakeholders regarding enhanced enterprise IT governance for New York.

Success in this project depends on identifying the full range of issues involved in creating value through enhanced enterprise IT governance and exploring the capabilities necessary to create that value. The collaborative and consensus-driven project is organized to ensure active engagement of key actors in New York State government including the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), control agencies such as the Division of the Budget and the Office of the State Comptroller, the CIO Council, and other relevant CIOs identified from across the state. In addition, input will be gathered from existing IT-related governance bodies already operating in the state.

The identification of issues and the exploration of capability is the focus of the four workshops planned for the next four months with New York State government CIOs. Each workshop will build on discussions from the previous workshop and will be combined with input from other key stakeholders listed above; the specific topics covered are as follows:

• Workshop 1: The Value Proposition of Governance
• Workshop 2: Dimensions of Enterprise IT Governance and Necessary Changes
• Workshop 3: Capability for Enterprise IT Governance in New York State
• Workshop 4: Identifying Elements of Enterprise IT Governance for Prototyping