Transparency needs CIO's, Chiefs of Staff, and IGs focusing on IRM, not IT
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What is the idea?
The Federal Agencies and Bureaus assigned responsibility for their parts of the ARRA need to fully follow the law in managing their organization's information resources, not just their information technology.
The most effective and efficient means of managing information resources is to use a consistent "terminology" method across all of those organizations. See the other ideas on this site relating to terminology (including enterprise architecture), as the basis for a consistent organization management life cycle, as the basis for consistent management controls, as the means to achieve appropriately secured and shared operational transparency, accountability, and discipline.
The CIO's need to establish the mechanism for organization terminology (methodology, metamodel, supporting technology, infrastructure), while the Chief of Staff or equivalent would be responsible for its cross-organization content and use, and the IG and auditors would use it to ensure effective and efficient organization, functional, program, and project operations management, and the contribution that the governed terminology makes to that management success.
Why is it important?
A tool is not the solution if the problem is not understood.
