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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
 

Kundra Mania

The former DC CIO trailblazer and now US CIO Vivek Kundra the newest celebrity in the tech world. I applaud the moves towards transparency and open data, and it would be great to see a concerted effort not only to make data more public and transparent but to transform collaborative processes within government decision-making.

Amplify’d from fcw.com
Vivek Kundra, the newly appointed federal chief information officer, has laid out a vision for open and accessible government that, if successful, would turn the prevailing view of how agencies operate upside-down and usher in the next generation of technology across government.
Kundra can expect pushback from agencies in making data more accessible, but he is an old hand at the challenge of converting bureaucracies into engines of efficiency, said Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum. Obama chose Kundra because the president knows that innovation has to happen in determining how to reboot the federal bureaucracy, Rasiej said.
With budget issues in mind while serving in the D.C. city government, Kundra took advantage of collaborative tools and technologies to get more capabilities. “The way we used to buy technology worked well for acquiring client/server siloed applications,” Forman said. “In the Web 2.0 environment, a lot of this changes, and he understands that.” Read more at fcw.com