From Column Two comes a mention of an interesting little article on sharing information between government agencies. The author, Thomas Davies, talks about an organization's "Information Orientation" (or IO, a term coined by Donald Marchand). One of Davies' solutions:
So what are top state and local executives to do to increase their jurisdictions’ IO quotient? For starters, put the “I” back in CIO. After all, the job title is Chief Information Officer, not Chief Technology Officer. Increasingly preoccupied with technology, CIOs have little, if any, time left to focus on information.
As an aside, this is the second article from Governing.com that I've pointed to in the past few days. I'll have to pay a bit more attention to this publication, I think. Too bad they don't have an RSS feed.
Posted by Karl
August 28, 2003 08:43 AM