Roadmap Positioning Activities Progressing

Several Roadmap Program positioning activities are complete or have made significant progress recently, including ISB IT Investment Standards update, the CASII project and Time/Leave Collection and Labor Distribution.
Read all about it on the Roadmap News page!

Expanded Roadmap Steering Committee Membership Announced!

July 21, 2008—The Roadmap program is excited to announce new appointments to the membership of its steering committee this week! The changes are the result of suggestions from executive sponsors, OFM staff and advisory board members. They expressed strong support for a group small enough to make decisions, but large enough to more specifically represent the diverse services and businesses of state government.

The appointment of dedicated and enthusiastic committee members is essential to the success of the Roadmap program. In addition to fulfilling the roles and responsibilities of the steering committee as a group, members also have the unique opportunity as individuals to champion specific financial and administrative business initiatives consistent with the Roadmap program, and to communicate on a regular basis with other organizations who are not members of the steering committee that share common business interests.

The current committee membership follows:

Executive Sponsors and Permanent Steering Committee Members
Gary Robinson, Department of Information Services
Wolfgang Opitz, Office of Financial Management

Steering Committee Members
Linda Bremer, Department of General Administration
Denise Doty, Department of Corrections
Bill Ford, Department of Transportation
Marcus Glasper, Department of Revenue
Pat Kohler, Liquor Control Board
Stan Marshburn, Department of Social and Health Services
Viji Murali, Washington State University
Eva Santos, Department of Personnel
Bill Wegeleben, Office of the Governor

The Roadmap charter was updated and includes roles and responsibilities of the steering committee. Check out the revised charter.

Congratulations and welcome to our new committee members!

About the Roadmap: Positioning the State for the Future

In today’s business environment, Washington State agencies are finding that many of their existing financial and administrative policies and processes no longer meet the demands of citizens, the Governor and the Legislature. Expectations for clarity and transparency in government are hindered by outdated back-office policies and business practices, and the tools and systems supporting them. 

Citizens deserve to know how their taxpayer dollars are being spent and for what results. That’s where the Roadmap program comes in.

The Roadmap looks across state government to:

To do so, the Roadmap must weigh the needs of the state as an enterprise over the needs of single agencies, or even functionally related agencies.

Washington stands at a crossroad where every state agency faces real and urgent business needs and risks.  We can choose to stay with the status quo – allowing agencies to continue investing in unique solutions that divert time, resources and energy from enterprise solutions.   Or, Washington State government can lead the way by providing enterprise tools that benefit all agencies.

In the past, Washington State has taken a decentralized governance approach. For example:

However, we are also exploring the benefits of an enterprise approach to achieve:

As we explore enterprise options we will clarify where a specialized approach is absolutely needed.