Looks like Fed CIO’s are as conspicuously absent from the federal Insurance Exchange project as are their counterparts in state government Who’s helping (and who’s not) on the ‘tech surge’: Dozens of software engineers, developers and other computer systems experts from the private sector and [...]
Is Lack of federal and state CIO’s Involvement Responsible for Exchange Problems?
November 4th, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: Adam Mazmanian, Covered Califoria, Exchange debacle, FCW, health insurance exchange, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV
Is Lack of federal and state CIO’s Involvement Responsible for Exchange Problems?
Latest State IT Reforms Issued: Mostly Familiar, But Hints at Recreating OSI under New Technology Department; Ghost of Teri Takai?
August 15th, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: 21st Century Project, Brown Administration, California Technology Agency, Carlos Ramos, Chiang, Controller, DOD CIO, IT project failure, John Thomas Flynn, SAP, Task Force on Reengineering IT Procurement for Success, TechLeader.TV, Teri Takai
Latest State IT Reforms Issued: Mostly Familiar, But Hints at Recreating OSI under New Technology Department; Ghost of Teri Takai?
The latest state IT reform commission (the 27th, by TechLeader.TV’s calculation), the Task Force on Re-engineering IT Procurement for Success issued its report today Recommendations to Improve Large Information Technology Procurements: A Road Map for Success in California. The task force and its report are [...]
State CIO Ramos to Testify at Senate Hearing Today on Controller’s 21st Century Payroll Project
August 15th, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: 21st Century Project, California State Controller, Carlos Ramos, John Chiang, John Thomas Flynn, Little Hoover Commission, SAP, Senator Berryhill, Senator Roth, Senator Torres, state computer system, TechLeader.TV
State CIO Ramos to Testify at Senate Hearing Today on Controller’s 21st Century Payroll Project
State CIO Carlos Ramos and representatives from the Controller’s Office, LAO, and the State of California Task Force on Re-Engineering IT Procurement for Success are scheduled to testify today at Senator Richard Roth’s Senate Subcommittee #4 on State Administration and General Government following “Adjournment of [...]
Senate Oversight Office Claims State Controller Chiang Misled Legislature and Public about State Payroll Project
August 12th, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: 21st Century Project, Controller, IT project failure, John Thomas Flynn, Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes, state computer systems, TechLeader.TV
Senate Oversight Office Claims State Controller Chiang Misled Legislature and Public about State Payroll Project
A new report by the California Legislature’s Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes blasted the State Controller’s Office for its management and its lack of accurate communication regarding the $350 million state payroll project. From the report’s most damning and damaging words regarding the Controller’s [...]
Startling New CIO Survey Reports 94% of States’ Obamacare Insurance Exchanges Are 50% or Less Completed with Deadline in Just 100 days; Over 40% claim to be 0% complete! Are State CIO’s Really Engaged???
June 21st, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: calHEERS, Covered California, Covered California Health Benefit Exchange, Health Policy Solutions, HIMSS, John Thomas Flynn, Juli Baker, Katie Kerwin McCrimmon, NASCIO, Obamacare Insurance Exchanges, or Obamacare, State CIO and Insurance Exchanges
Startling New CIO Survey Reports 94% of States’ Obamacare Insurance Exchanges Are 50% or Less Completed with Deadline in Just 100 days; Over 40% claim to be 0% complete! Are State CIO’s Really Engaged???
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) surveyed representatives from 26 states and territories and released their report last week entitled, “The Health IT Landscape in the States: Through the Lens of the State [...]
STATE PAYROLL SYSTEM: TAKE IT AWAY FROM CONTROLLER’S OFFICE: My article is up today in the San Diego Union Tribune
March 14th, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: 21st Century Project, Accenture, Brown Administration, California Technology Agency, Chiang, Controller, darrell Steinberg, franchise Tax Board, Governor Brown, IT project failure, John Thomas Flynn, SAP, state cio, Steve Westly
STATE PAYROLL SYSTEM: TAKE IT AWAY FROM CONTROLLER’S OFFICE: My article is up today in the San Diego Union Tribune
My primary points; After three separate controllers’ efforts, the last two having spent more than a decade in procurement and implementation efforts outlined above, the sine qua non ingredient for a new, successful project is the removal of responsibility for payroll and the new payroll [...]
Now, DMV Reportedly Halts Major $210 Million IT Project…
February 13th, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: 21st Century Project, Bernard Soriano, Brown Administration, California Technology Agency, Chris Megerian, Controller, darrell Steinberg, Elaine Howle, FI$CAL, HP, John Thomas Flynn, Little Hoover Commission, state computer system, TechLeader.TV
Now, DMV Reportedly Halts Major $210 Million IT Project…
The California Technology Agency’s IT Project Tracking web site has for several consecutive months posted ominous project status reports, replete with bright red warning signs indicating serious implementation problems on the DMV’s IT Modernization Project. Today the DMV announced that it was apparently halting its [...]
Well, the Controller can use his own Payroll Project as Case Study in IT Procurement Failure
February 12th, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: Chiang, Controller, IT project failure, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, Techwire, Teri Takai
Well, the Controller can use his own Payroll Project as Case Study in IT Procurement Failure
This may be closing the barn door after the horse has run away California Controller Kills SAP Contract for Statewide Payroll, Jeopardizing $375 million Project, Frightening Spokesman but as Techwire reports: State Controller Announces Task Force on Reengineering IT Procurement for Success State Controller John [...]
CIO Academy IT Honorees Cited
CIO Academy IT Honorees Cited
It is indeed unfortunate that this news about the state’s doomed Payroll Project comes the same week as the state honors its IT champions at the annual CIO Academy where dozens of current and former state employees were cited for their accomplishments. Tip of the [...]
California Controller Kills SAP Contract for Statewide Payroll, Jeopardizing $375 million Project, Frightening Spokesman
February 8th, 2013 by admin
Categories: Blogs
Tags: 21st Century Project, Brown Administration, California State Auditor, California State Controller, California Technology Agency, FI$CAL, IT project failure, John Chiang, Little Hoover Commission, SAP, state computer systems, TechLeader.TV
California Controller Kills SAP Contract for Statewide Payroll, Jeopardizing $375 million Project, Frightening Spokesman
The SacBee’s Jon Ortiz reported today that State Controller John Chiang has terminated SAP’s contract to implement the state’s SAP payroll project, jeopardizing the entire $375 million project. After overseeing this project since he took office in his first term in 2007, this marks just [...]