Advice for Obama's CTO
During the presidential campaign, President-elect Barack Obama said he would appoint a federal chief technology officer "to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century," according to a management reform plan he released in September. Just what skills does this CTO need to do this, which includes leading the historically change-averse bureaucracy to embrace new ways of doing business?
Nextgov's Allan Holmes sat down recently with Norm Lorentz, the first -- and only -- federal chief technology officer to find out. He was named CTO at the Office of Management and Budget in January 2002 and worked in that position until September 2003. While CTO, Lorentz worked on the Federal Enterprise Architecture, which provides a common model for buying information technology so agencies can share information.
Read the full Q&A here.
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