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Accelerating Government and Public Service technology leadership with Deloitte's CIO Program

We empower Government and Public Services (GPS) CIOs to lead confidently while navigating the rapidly changing technology landscape with our specialized support for IT transformation. Our services combine experience, valuable insights, and customized leadership development opportunities to help you effectively manage your portfolio, balance strategic and operational activities, and foster business transformation.

Helping leaders get ahead—and stay ahead—on technology

Your role as a technology leader is constantly evolving and staying ahead of the curve can be challenging. Our services, paired with relevant insights and tailored experiences from Deloitte's CIO Program, are designed to help accelerate your leadership journey while strategically steering your agency toward success.

Shaping your CIO agenda

Deloitte's CIO Program has curated a list of top CIO priorities for government and public services technology leaders. Developing a perspective on each of these issues will help you shape your agenda, anticipate critical challenges, and redefine the future for your organization.

New technologies, leadership, and strategy shifts are forcing CIOs to rethink how they enable the enterprise to deliver mission value. Organizations are reimagining their operating models and shifting to align IT to mission success.

CIOs are expected to creatively deliver value through technology investments while ensuring proper governance, public trust, and oversight to measure and monitor technology functions. The key to balancing quick wins with long-term strategies is to link investments to value and examine potential hidden opportunities within the technology estate.

Data, analytics, and AI/Machine Learning can offer both mission advantage and new capabilities, but risk-related challenges and inconsistent executive commitment remain widespread. When organizations approach data as a strategic asset and establish data trust with stakeholders, it can open doors to new efficiencies, insights, and capabilities.

Pushing the boundaries of innovation and delivering solutions at a rapid pace is fundamental in today's digital landscape. CIOs should set the standard for agile and strategic technology adoption by staying on top of advancements in technology and accelerating adoption while managing risks.

Due to the growing talent shortage and increased desire for specific skills, CIOs should rethink hiring, engaging, and reskilling technology talent. The key will be developing a team that thrives on challenges, innovation, and continuous learning while setting the stage for technology innovation and sustained workforce performance in stakeholder-centric delivery.

CIOs should implement ongoing, iterative changes and investments via enterprise IT transformation to enhance mission value. The key to digital transformation is using technology to change the way you interact with stakeholders, rather than simply digitalizing legacy processes.

As enterprise IT transformation initiatives accelerate amid the emergence of a pervasive remote workforce, threats are becoming increasingly complex highlighting the need for more advanced disaster recovery solutions. CIOs should be the guardians of their enterprises' virtual fortress, ensuring robust measures are in place to thwart cyber threats and comply with relevant regulations, thereby enhancing the enterprise's digital resilience.

Delivering your enterprise IT transformation

Deloitte's strategic approach to enterprise IT transformation can help business and technology leaders define a plan and deliver on transformation goals.

Enabling your IT transformation with Deloitte's government practice

Make an impact: Client stories

We have successfully executed numerous enterprise IT transformations for diverse government and public service agencies, which has given us the experience and know-how needed to guide technology leaders in achieving their organizational objectives.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) was faced with a major challenge due to the lack of formalized DevSecOps capabilities. This resulted in each software team adopting different tools and creating custom automation to fulfill their continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) requirements. The lack of uniformity and standardization led to significant startup delays for new products, prolonged time-to-production for new features, and delays in gaining accreditation.

Deloitte implemented its Software Factory model and platform, streamlining the DevSecOps processes, establishing rigorous quality and security standards, and introducing a structured approach to solution architecture decisions. This centralized pool of shareable and reusable services was leveraged by development teams to handle common use cases. By adopting the Software Factory platform, each team was able to offload non-value-added tasks enabling them to focus more on end-user capabilities. As a result, I&A gained greater control over its enterprise architecture, reduced AWS costs through the consolidation of tools and environments, and achieved a more efficient DevSecOps environment.

The Deloitte advantage