Enterprise Governance Structure
Enterprise governance sets a common destination for State IT by identifying the priorities and projects that will move Minnesota forward. Five teams work closely with Minnesota’s Chief Information Officer to plan for the future of the state in today’s digital landscape.
Financial Team
Forecasting - Budgeting - Expending
Purpose
- Budget and expend to enable IT operations
- Provide transparency
- Maximize time available to make spending decisions
Responsibilities
- Match spending levels to reflect priorities
- Communicate spending budgets and expenditures
- Adjust level of spending to reflect priorities
- Proactively work with other sub-teams to ensure financial efficiency
- Maintain a close working relationship with the Service sub-team
Service Team
Align Shared Services
Purpose
- Govern Shared Services
- Define and select Shared Services
- Set delivery terms and performance standards
Responsibilities
- Align Shared Services to increase business value
- Select and provision as centralized, decentralized or hybrid
- Develop and maintain value metrics
- Develop and maintain SLS’s
- Charter sub-teams for solution matching
- Maintain a close working relationship with the Financial sub-team
Steering Team
Decide – Oversee - Govern Purpose
Purpose
- Key decision-making body
- Provides oversight and steering to governance teams
- Charter sub-teams to manage specified IT operations
- Establish a process for assigning issues and requests
Responsibilities
- Develop and communicate a statewide strategic IT plan
- Determine how IT is used by the business/agencies
- Set direction for internal operations
- Direct investments
- Develop legislation to align IT capabilities
- Communicate IT decisions and directions
- Charter additional sub teams
- Ensure IT staff is available