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 Exeter provided support
to the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Chief Information Officer (CIO), who has
responsibility for a $2 billion annual IT budget and more than 41,000 military
and civilian IT personnel, to improve its approach to enterprise IT governance. Exeter's assessment framework for this initiative included understanding and
documenting the USMC's approaches to IT governance decision making, Enterprise
Architecture oversight, IT strategic planning, Capital Planning and Investment
Control (CPIC), and IT portfolio management. Other tasks included creating IT
governance analysis tools, such as decision matrices, to construct a gap
analysis and road map to the To Be IT governance state, recommending USMC IT
policy changes, and identifying specific governance processes and practices for
improvement, such as IT CPIC integration with the overall budgeting process. Exeter documented the USMC's As Is IT governance environment to include
decision bodies, portfolio management, and EA capabilities.
Exeter also represented USMC interests in
external IT governance forums, directly interacting with flag/SES-level
leadership across the Department of the Navy (DoN) and Department of Defense
(DoD). Exeter provided deep subject matter expertise on Federal and DoD IT
policy, legislation and regulations to directly shape new and revised policy
drafted in these governance bodies, particularly related to IT Portfolio
Management, IT CPIC, and DoD Business Transformation/Business Process
Reengineering. Exeter staff drafted recommended USMC response/input to draft IT
policies at all levels; assessed the impact of DoN/DoD policies and initiatives,
and coordinated with stakeholders to ensure unified USMC positions were
presented at external IT forums.
Exeter's efforts
resulted in improved USMC understanding of key internal and external IT
governance forums and improving the USMC-wide credibility, efficiency, and
effectiveness of the Marine Corps' top-level IT governance body, the Information
Technology Steering Group (ITSG), chaired by the USMC CIO. Exeter developed the
requirements, supported implementation, and managed content for a USMC Microsoft
SharePoint portal to support IT Governance collaboration and virtual meetings
between senior USMC IT leadership around the globe. Finally, Exeter provided a
USMC-wide strategic IT governance vision with recommended tactical initiatives
to improve IT strategic planning, EA compliance, governance process integration,
and program management.
Exeter recommended
and implemented methods of improving integration of IT CPIC into the existing
USMC budgeting process, including evaluating compliance with EA standards. In
early 2006, Exeter facilitated an ITSG Value-Risk Assessment with the CIO and
ITSG members by reviewing 52 IT programs consisting of over $7.8 billion of
proposed FY08-13 IT investments, generating formal IT CPIC input to the USMC
budget.
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