Organizational Information Technology - Summary

Organizational Information Technology - Summary

Introduction

Information technology is a strong agent to carry out the mission of the Health and Human Services (HSS) and it expounds the important opportunities to coerce the advancement for human services and public health. Their IT strategic plan specifies the largely efficient and effective employment of resources of IT all through HHS lining up the enterprise spread IT strategic course with national government-wide and departmental precedence, while preserving an emphasis on stakeholders, customers and citizens. Further, this plan has lined up the tactical course of IT in HHS, by means of accomplishing HHS business and programmatic outcomes. It has reinforced the requirement of founding the operational measures on compact requirements of business (Bovey & Hede, 2001). The IT strategic plan of HHS depends an outcome based planning approach in sponsor of the efforts of E-government and Presidential management agenda. A performance plan and an annual resource management plan is developed by the Offive of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) which demonstrate the management and IT initiatives and also the performance targets and goals which back the achievement of the identified IT strategies.

The IT strategic plan for HHs enterprise emphasizes on the mission of HHS and the analogous IT objectives, goals, mission and vision. It covers a dialogue of chief IT technologies and strategies which have been recognized as preferred approaches to achieving the defined objectives and goals (Burnes, 2004). On the other hand, the tactical plan imparts a relatively larger level of specificity and detail for chief IT initiatives and strategies. This plan intent to impart extensive impedances for the chief IT initiatives and strategies over a period of three years for enterprise initiative and also preferred IT reserves all through the department. Moreover, the tactical plan classifies and confers these chief investments as in three prime categories of IT investment. These include;

IT Oversight and Management: including every category of IT investment which is used in the procedure of IT oversight and management like training, IT human resource planning, policy development, etc.

Enterprise initiatives and IT infrastructure: including the investment of IT infrastructure with respect to shared, common services of IT taking in the conventional view of infrastructure like shared services and networks.

Mission based Initiatives: including the provision of coverage to IT investment based on the mission areas of HHS. This usually encompasses planning for chief IT initiatives taking in the attainment of applications or systems which back the mission areas of the operating division (OPDIV).

The plan for performance evaluation and measurement stresses upon performance computation procedure, tactical performance activities for information technology resources identified in the tactical plan in every category and the line of attack to the procedure and ascendancy of performance evaluation of HHS enterprise information technology.

HHS Mission

Health and Human Services defines its mission as; to augment the well being and health of the US citizens by imparting effectual human and health services and by promoting powerful, unrelenting progresses in the disciplines that lie behind social sciences, public health ...