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Acting U.S. CIO Margie Graves said the government is pushing forward to imple- ment a standard approach for tracking IT spending decisions across federal agen- cies, but a top General Services Adminis- tration official said full-scale implementa- tion is still “years away.”
The Technology Business Manage- ment taxonomy is a framework
for categorizing and manag-
ing IT investments. It is more commonly used in the private sector, but the idea has been slowly gaining traction in the federal government since the
final years of the Obama admin- istration.
Graves said a number of federal agencies are currently implementing the TBM frame-
work, and the CIO Council and
GSA’s Office of Governmentwide Poli- cy are reaching out for additional feed- back from organizations and people in the private and public sectors who have already integrated a standardized taxonomy for IT spending.
Dominic Sale, GSA’s deputy associ- ate administrator of information integ-
rity and access, said the TBM frame- work is still maturing and integrating itself into the bureaucratic layers that drive government action.
Currently, the process is almost entirely led by the agencies’ CIOs, but Sale said chief financial officers, chief administrative officers and other
been successful, it remains to be seen how difficult integration will be at larg- er, more complex agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Ser- vices or the Treasury Department.
Sale said officials are taking a phased approach and expecting lots of imperfection along the way.
“It may be led by the CIO community, but \[TBM\] will fail without
involvement from others.” — DOMINIC SALE, GSA
C-suite executives will also need to become actively involved for the frame- work’s implementation to succeed.
“It may be led by the CIO communi- ty, but \[TBM\] will fail without involve- ment from others,” Sale said.
He added that although GSA’s imple- mentation of the framework has largely
“Implementation of TBM is going to take years — I want to lay that out there right now,” he said. “This is not a six-month project. This is something where we might have a couple of good \[agency case studies\] to point to within the next year or so.”
— Derek B. Johnson
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