Kundra Treats Projects as Investments
I’m impressed with Kundra’s innovative approaches to portfolio management, project selection. I’m not sure how much power he’ll have to implement these approaches. We’ll see if he’ll have the influence to spur adoption across agencies.
Amplify’d from advice.cio.com
US Federal CIO Vivek Kundra treats projects as investments, like stocks. This model provides leadership towards the ultimate destiny of the CIO role - as portfolio investor in business change - provided that everyone bears four things in mind.
Kundra, as D.C.'s CTO, has emphasized what he calls a stock-market approach to IT project management (see “Meet the Nation's First CIO“, CIO.com, March 6th 2009). Projects are subject to ongoing, robust investment management: those that will still deliver their expected value are nurtured, while those that won't are cancelled and the investment moved elsewhere.Read more at advice.cio.com
