Center for Government Interoperability

CFGIO

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Mission

CFGIO is designed to save governments from tough economic times

•Shared•Low cost•Integrated software applications

Non-technical description for business people

Economics of duplicative software purchases

Business software can be thought of as a set of instructions that any computer programmer can create

The city of Beverly Hills purchases instructions from lawn experts on how to take care of its municipal lawns

(1) water the lawn

(2) mow the lawn

The above instructions represent computer instructions

Los Angeles duplicate purchase

(1) water the lawn

(2) mow the lawn

All cities, counties, states and federal lawn managers make duplicative purchases

(1) water the lawn

(2) mow the lawn

This type duplication is what government actually does when purchasing business software

Beverly Hills Los Angeles All US cities

CFGIO allows for government to collectively purchase the instructions by paying for a

• Beverly Hills

• Los Angeles

• All US cities share a single version

1. License-free copy2. Only one time3. Sharing copies of it amongst paying

government agencies

Price goes down, quality goes up

CFGIO creates a nationwide marketplace like eBay

Services beyond watering and mowing

• New instructions are only paid for once• Continually provide new instructions• Become partners in improving government

Collective purchasing power

Private industry will have a better chance of selling a much larger variety of projects including large new projects because the cost is now acceptable to government through its group purchasing power

New products = More citizen services

Private industry/government interoperability planning in action

This further improves the innovation and planning partnership between lawn experts and government

Vendors are moved out of duplicative products to new or enhancing products

CFGIO creates national forums to spur interoperability

Redesigning incentives improves the business model

Key concepts

•Private industry will not have intellectual property rights

•Only one production version of a government function will be allowed:

1. Channels private sector innovation to new development, enhancements or interoperability

2. Other developers can count on integrating with only one specific subject area system for planning purposes

Door 2. Stable target; which property database? THE only property database

Enables nationwide planning

CFGIO stabilizes current and future, state and federal connectivity allowing interoperability planning

Duplicateeffort

CFGIO transforms into

New services

(1) Police vacation schedule (2) This enhancement is put out to bid in the marketplace like all other products

Stovepiped systems

CFGIO transforms into

Interoperability

High school connect inventory system connects to their fiscal system

Individual product planning

CFGIO transforms into

Government-wide planning

1. DoD handoff 2. Soldiers falling into cracks

What is missing in today's environment is that government is not set up to give private industry

incentives to consolidate and integrate government

The incentive is actually the reverse 

1. Property records cannot rollup standards 2. Vendor wastes energy going 3. Incentivizing silos 4. CFGIO designs incentives

Enterprise-wide system integration is key

Bidding systems already exist such as GSA Advantage, DoD EMALL and FedBid

A missing key component is interoperability with other products

CFGIO emphasizes enterprise-wide interoperability

•Cross-agency coordination

•Business process reengineering

•Innovation

•Efficiency

Many of government's largest problems are related to business software systems that are not integrated

Without continually updated interoperability, you cannot re-engineer your business processes

CFGIO was designed at the outset to build interoperability

Open source on the cloud

Scope

A single CFGIO is recommended for all states and federal government

• Each system will be 50 times more expensive if CFGIO does not handle all states and federal government.

• Each state running its own CFGIO will create 50 new silo systems. Nationwide planning will be balkanized.

• Planning and discussion forums will be severely impoverished due to lack of participation. Only the depth of a national audience is enough to bring out the best analysts willing to join discussions.

• Starting small should not be confused with limiting scalability.

We don’t want to design lack of scalability

eBay-like bidding system

Broker 2. Put yourself into shoes 3. Click

Subject areas are only for new or enhancement products 2. Notice forums

Video tour 2. Florida attorney general 3. Not working hard to save the world like DOIT. If the numbers aren’t there; TIME D 4. Tendency for vendor to build out 21 st Century 5. Requirements management

Developer demos

• Demos showcase integration

• Improved requirements management

CFGIO Laboratory

•Developers’ integrated testing area

•Interoperability testing with all currently existing systems

One version lets them plan with other systems others are developing 2. Police working on a fresh crime

CFGIO Lab for government clients

•Mirror of the production version

•Allows clients to collectively test, compare and comment upon software from many vendors

Improves requirements management

Private industry is allowed to demo integrated systems not yet

requested by government

Much larger community of analysts plan government's "to be" vision

Business functionality is missing because it lies in between the cracks of silo systems

Developers given a framework to build functionality in previously neglected areas

With permission to pre-build integrated solutions, vendors will strive to fill in missing interoperability throughout government so that the whole web of government is rapidly improved

Clients need to test drive the demos

CFGIO Lab creates working demos that vendor and government developers have built

One hand of government knows what the other

CFGIO breakthrough concepts

• Group software purchases

• Integration of all business software purchases

• New government/private-industry partnership model

From an integration perspective, current incentives drive government to self destruct 2. CFGIO creates framework for efficient nationwide planning 3. CFGIO incentives quickly fill gaps with quality systems

Perspectives

Organizational Structure Perspective

Organizations are not designed to make group purchases

CFGIO gives agencies someone to go to; helps them discover opportunities; “Too busy to join committee”

Sociological perspective

Government leaders meet collaboration resistance

Takes inertia problems out of individuals’ hands; Changes time dynamics

Legal/financial structure

Economist’s perspective

• Government’s needs include integrated services but current purchases are made with a limited scope

• This creates an inefficient market which does not serve all of governments needs. Government procurement process distorts the market

• CFGIO creates an efficient procurement market addressing government’s needs comprehensively

drives inefficiencies out of government by adding missing governance for the creation of interoperable software systems

Transform government

By incentivizing the right kind of innovation, the Center for Government Interoperability provides a new framework for sustained government improvement

Implementation plan

Dog catcher; Don’t need NIST, servers; Save cash –starved governments; generate revenue;

Questions?

Center for Government Interoperability

CFGIO Gov-ideas.com

Contact: Alex Glaros, alexglaros@gmail.com

Appendix

• When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted to transform the city's underperforming public school system, he used funds from private organizations to test ideas before spending public money on a citywide rollout, a strategy that proved to be vital to its success.

• College example CLOUD HELPS UNIVERSITIES CUT COSTS BY 74 PER CENT – http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2010/jul/19/cloud-helps-universities-cut-costs-74-cent/

• http://www.govtech.com/gt/736939 - A group of seven Colorado counties have found a way to drive their hosted software costs downward each year. Instead of purchasing cloud computing services from a vendor that will raise its prices progressively, the agencies are purchasing hosted software services from one another. In 2008, Pueblo County, Colo., began delivering cloud-computing-style hosted county assessor and treasurer software services to six other counties.

Review of how markets are channeled through a new business model

Microsoft allows only one version of a utility, e.g., a disk writing utility

But it allows the world of vendors to market improvements for that utility. Microsoft still uses world markets to find products, but channels them into a confined, single area that is constantly improved.

Otherwise, the operating system would be unstable

Outside companies have a stable location to go to for planning

purposes

Two processes are integrated

•Planning

•Product improvement

UMass Boston

Transformational to business side

• Projects were completed much faster

• Project quality was much higher

• Greater programmer collaboration

• Greater business side collaboration

Productivity went through the roof

Solutions in all areas of business

• Inventory• Finance• Project management

• Etc.

Many unexpected business benefits were revealed

Unlocked data allowed more opportunities for innovation and agility

Clients were extremely satisfied

• New business advantages

• Data was prescient

• Easier to get reports

• Reduced workload

• Reduced errors

Success factors:

(1) Continual contact with clients

(2) Modeling data to translate data model into client solutions

UMass Boston

Each time a new software system was installed, it was completely and totally integrated, not just partly, but with every possible data connection fully implemented. Every table and field was examined for enterprise integration.

Continually tuning the organization

UMass Boston

One of the first data-integrated organizations in the country

UMass Boston data governance

Built process improvement into the DNA of the organization

FBI

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III

FBI had competent vendors and project managers install their system

• On time

• On budget

• On scope.

• Good data modelers

QUIZ: What was missing?

Answer: a comprehensive way looking at the interconnection of problems and prioritizing them in coordination with the enterprise data vision

• Hidden requirements were not identified. • No organizational structure existed to ensure enterprise-wide

interoperability. • A process that continually takes the enterprise-wide view of how to

implement change. They just added systems to the rest like a manager of a fleet of cars adds a new car. They didn’t check for interoperability.

The problem was repeated over and over again for each new FBI project.

Data governance was missing.

Legal foundations permitting operation

http://www.uscommunities.org/legal/StateStatute.aspx?state=CA

AUTHORIZING STATE STATUTESState of California Statutes

California CodeCalifornia Government CodeTitle 1 GeneralDivision 7 MiscellaneousChapter 5 Joint Exercise of PowersArticle 1 Joint Powers Agreements