Obama's CIO faces uphill battle

13.03.2009

The problem is that the departments and agencies of the US Government are fiefdoms that are reluctant to give up control over investments. Harmonizing enterprise architectures creates winners and losers and departments will likely fight to avoid sub-optimization of the department to achieve of the optimization of government. I have seen many government-wide EA programs that have failed primarily because they underestimated the political, cultural and financial challenges.