Recommendations There are three critical recommendations for DLA Information Operations to improve efficiency and effectiveness of transparency, risk management, and portfolio reviews. One for each FITARA section which has been discussed. First, DLA should improve CPIC to increase the GAO ITIM maturity level to level three. Second, DLA needs to improve both the portfolio review process, risk management, and transparency through automating ITIM with real-time information. Next, DLA needs access to improve transparency and risk management by reducing portfolio cost through cloud hosting. These three strategic recommendations will help DLA achieve the strategic objectives for FITRA. The first recommendation to have DLA improve the ITIM …show more content…
DLA needs to leverage the current IT investment in DPATS to help facilitate many of the key processes from the GAO’s ITIM framework. DPATS is an important to DLA achieving a modern tool with capabilities to facilitate transparency and risk management. DPATS will allow DLA to create, store, record, and view information on IT acquisitions in real-time. This will allow much of the decision points for risk management and portfolio review to be …show more content…
The tiger team must also be used to identify weak areas in the coalition and ensure the coalition has support from various cross functional organizations at the different levels of DLA. If not all the key stakeholders are involved, the team must identify the additional people and the benefits for these stakeholders for the CIO to request involvement through effective relationship management. Third, by the end of month one, the senior champions and CIO should determine the vision and strategy. The vision needs to connect to all the crucial aspects from training to performance goals to expectations. The tiger team needs to ensure the vision aligns to the current DLA strategic plan and make sure the vision can be understood and followed. Next, senior leadership must empower their managers through employees to be able to facilitate the implementation of the vision to achieve the recommendations. This is important to be able to expedite the implementation and realize short-term wins as soon as