FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) Planning & Architecture (P&A) Shared Interest Group (SIG) published the Smart Lean Government (SLG) Practical Guide. This three-volume guide proposes a novel approach to design and deliver government shared services that supports the President’s call for a smarter, more efficient government. Peter Wilson, Chair of the P&A SIG stated, “We are very excited to share the ideas in the SLG Practical Guide. It describes how agencies can collaborate, cut costs and really focus on meeting the needs of citizens.”
Volume 1, Core Concepts, grounds readers in a new perspective that can
enable new levels of collaboration and sharing: life events, communities
of services, and a service integration model (SIM).
Volume 2,
Strategic Roadmap, defines a four-step process to collaborate, share,
and operate services. It also calls out vital issues that agencies must
address to operate a sustainable shared service environment.
Volume
3, Tactical Implementation, dives deeper into the technical issues that
underlie the planning and architecting of a 21st century digital
government and introduces practical tools to address those issues.
At the recent ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference (ELC), more than 800 government and industry members came together to share challenges and opportunities to enhance government services. Information sharing, cybersecurity, and using big data to improve services were at the center of every conversation. Keynoter Steven VanRoekel, Federal Chief Information Officer, stressed the importance of government’s citizen focus. The SLG Practical Guide offers a citizen-centric model to build on the Government’s strengths while providing practical steps for improving ACT-IAC priority areas of focus. The ACT-IAC strategic plan was developed collaboratively by Government and industry to assure focus on greatest impact issues, including support of the Digital Government Strategy. SLG embodies crucial concepts that underpin several strategic areas particularly in the following areas:
Innovation and digital government - through the use of the SIM,
agency enterprise architectures, and better strategic plan execution,
agencies can begin to build a modular business service platform to more
easily advance innovation and digital government goals, such as
information centricity, open data, and citizen-focused shared services
while ensuring the security and privacy of citizens. As practitioners
begin building out solutions using the SLG model, integrating their
service plans with an effective, inclusive digital strategy will build
access to and demand for e-services.
Planning, management, and
delivery - the SLG core concepts lay the foundation of common
definitions and standards needed to sustain shared services, to buy and
develop services agilely, to resource and skill-build to appropriately
support priorities, and to evaluate strategic investments within and
across agencies.
SLG will serve as a platform for the P&A SIG’s activities in the coming year. Through the many "white space" issues called out in the SLG Practical Guide, Government and industry will explore, collaborate, innovate, and learn how to transform and operate a more efficient 21st century government.
The Smart Lean Government Practical Guide can be directly downloaded
through these links:
Smart
Lean Government Practical Guide Vol 1-Core Concepts - 11-2013
Smart
Lean Government Practical Guide Vol 2-Strategic Roadmap - 11-2013
Smart
Lean Government Practical Guide Vol 3-Tactical Implementation - 11-2013
About ACT-IAC – Advancing Government Through Education, Collaboration and Action
ACT-IAC has been recognized as the premier government IT community’s public-private partnership and is an example of how Government and industry work together. We are a non-profit educational organization created to advance Government in serving the public through the effective application of IT resources. Our education, training, programming, and collaboration opportunities enhance and advance the government IT profession. ACT-IAC’s objective, vendor and technology-neutral, and ethical forum allow Government and industry to collaborate and improve government through technology. Headquartered in the greater Washington, D.C. area, ACT-IAC also has chapters in the Pacific region (based in San Diego) and the Rocky Mountain region (based in Denver).
Learn more about our organization and how to become a member at www.actgov.org or call 703-208-4800.
