{"id":9968,"date":"2014-01-10T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/jan\/10\/why-cloud-services-will-kill-big-bad-whole-of-government-it-projects\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:09:50","slug":"why-cloud-services-will-kill-big-bad-whole-of-government-it-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-cloud-services-will-kill-big-bad-whole-of-government-it-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Why cloud services will kill big bad whole-of-government IT projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director, Public Sector Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Momentum for cloud services adoption in government grew solidly in 2013 and looks certain to accelerate in 2014. We believe that growth in cloud services adoption by agencies will drive a change in the core logic of whole-of-government IT strategy. Cloud services offer a less risky win-win-win path towards IT modernization and intra-agency collaboration. Big bad experimental whole-of-government IT projects are dead. Long live the new logic of cloud services: find solutions that work well in individual agencies and then adopt them more broadly across multiple agencies. Simple.<\/p>\n<h3>Stop the horror story of whole-of-government IT strategy experiments<\/h3>\n<p>IT strategy in government too often resembles a horror story because of a passion for big projects which become mad experiments that go bad. Under pressure to cut costs, whole-of-government CIOs pursued adventurous and experimental shared services and common application and infrastructure strategies. While the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director, Public Sector Technology<br \/>\nMomentum for cloud services adoption in government grew solidly in 2013 and looks certain to accelerate in 2014. We believe that growth in cloud services adoption by agencies will drive a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}