Center for Competitive Government

1. Center for Competitive Government Center for Competitive Government An Introduction for the Private Sector

2. Mission • The Center for Government and Technology will provide a leadership forum in public management to foster innovative public-private partnership solutions to local government problems. The Center will promote the improvement of the management of local government services, including health and human services, education, public safety, the administration of justice, transportation, and public services using technology and telecommunications through research, education, and public forums.

3. Goals • Establish the Mayors’ Summits as the leading conference for the exchange of information technology with municipal executives in the United States. • Provide a neutral, academic supported venue for private and municipal executives to network and explore partnerships related to information technology, homeland security and public safety. • Establish a new leadership forum in public management that fosters innovative public-private partnership solutions. • Establish a privately sponsored research and educational program in technology management and homeland security at Temple University with participation of leading academicians from other academic institutions and from leading IT companies. • Conduct annually at least one research project on a subject determined by the Board of Governors that will serve as a principal topic at the annual Summit.

4. Goals • Produce a mix of products including publications, funded research, academic and professional programs in homeland security and best practices for municipal governments. Continuing activities include edited books on best practices for public executives and non-funded and funded research projects: See, for example, http://www.fox.temple.edu/ccg/publications. The academic and professional programs in homeland security and public safety will seek to integrate the work of academic personnel, executives in IT companies, CIO’s, and directors of homeland security and public executives. • The Programs will seek to leverage and disseminate federal and state Homeland Security and public safety research, especially that work that focuses on information technology, telecommunications and e-Government strategies.

5. Select Center Publications • Forthcoming • Innovations in E-Government: Governors and Mayors Speak-out • Management Innovation in U.S. Public Water and Wastewater Systems • Volumes • The New Public Management: Lessons from Innovating Governors and Mayors • Reinventing Water and Wastewater Systems: Global Lessons for Improving Management • Making Government Work: Lessons from America’s Governors and Mayors

6. Proposed Governance Structure

7. Why engage with local government?

8. IT Spending – State and Local versus other public verticals (in billions) Source: *Center for Digital Government & Center for Digital Education fiscal year 2003-04 estimates

9. IT Spending – Cities and Counties Source: *IDC: State and Local Government IT: Trends and Priorities for IT Spending in 2004

10. Center of Digital Government estimates for 2004 Center of Digital Government estimates for 2004 IDC survey for 2003 actual spend State and Local Software Market Source: *IDC: State and Local Government IT: Trends and Priorities for IT Spending in 2004

11. Overall State and Local Trends* • Top Strategic Priorities for 2004 • Improving quality of services • reducing operating costs • streamlining operations • IT Budgets are decreasing or staying the same in 69% of state and local governments - Increasing need to see ROI for project approvals • Most important factors in purchase decisions • 1) Price • 2) Integration with legacy systems • Homeland Security is a low priority in 2004, however, priority will increase as fed funding trickles down • Citizens are demanding more eGov solutions from government offices • GSA schedules playing an increasing role Source: *IDC: State and Local Government IT: Trends and Priorities for IT Spending in 2004

12. IT Priorities for 2004*Q: How important are the following business goals to your agency’s FY04 strategic priorities? • Improving service quality, reducing costs and streamlining operations were top priority • Surprisingly, Homeland Security was not a top strategic priority to state and local IT managers • HLS may not be an ’04 priority but will be increasingly important in ’05 and beyond due to Federal funding • Data center consolidation, eGov initiatives align with top priorities IDC Survey, N=100, scores from 1 to 5, 1 = not at all important and 5 = very important. Survey was IT managers of various levels from state, county and municipal governments Source: * IDC: State and Local Government IT: Trends and Priorities for IT Spending in 2004

13. Center Stakeholders • Mayors and City Managers • County Executives • CIO’s supporting local levels of government • Local government department heads for health and human services, education, public safety, the administration of justice, transportation, and public services agencies