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State departments drafting IT strategic plans to align with statewide IT strategy; ETS will tie larger IT spend requests to departmental goals
Summary
Office of Enterprise Technology Services and enterprise architect provided an update on a statutory effort to produce department‑level IT strategies. The work uses business‑first workshops, a Gartner engagement and the LeanIX portfolio tool. ETS expects most departments to finish plans within weeks and will ask that IT spending over $100,000 be
UC Cipolla, enterprise architect at the Office of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), updated the IT steering committee on the department‑level IT strategies that are being developed to align departmental business goals with the statewide IT strategic plan.
Cipolla said the process began in spring and uses workshops and a Gartner engagement to start with management priorities and translate them into IT goals and programs. ETS is using a portfolio management tool (LeanIX) to capture mission, vision, business goals, IT goals and active projects. The team is working to complete 23 plans—15 at the department level and eight division‑level plans for agencies that manage IT at a division scale, such as the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Transportation.
As part of implementation, ETS will ask that any IT spending request above $100,000 be tied to at least one departmental IT goal so that investments align to management priorities and statewide IT goals. Cipolla showed a one‑page plan format that links management priorities and IT goals to active projects and contracts.
Committee members raised questions about how the plans account for project size and resource demands; Cipolla and other ETS staff said departmental spend requests already carry dollar amounts and teams are exploring how best to surface resource sizing and relative effort in one‑page summaries. Senators and committee members also urged that the planning process engage department leadership so strategic IT work reflects each department’s mission and changing service needs.
Several members raised artificial intelligence as an emerging area to include in planning and workforce training; ETS leaders said executive‑level briefings on AI for cabinet members have begun and that AI considerations will be part of future IT planning discussions.
The ETS team said the department plans are in active review with department IT leads and that most plans should be complete within the next month or two. The steering committee offered technical and policy guidance and requested follow‑up material showing project size/resource estimates alongside the one‑page strategy outputs.
