IT Action Plan
Charge Letter
J. Bernard Machen
President
October 6, 2008
| TO: | Joe Glover, Doug Barrett, Frank Bova, Kyle Cavanaugh, Jimmy Creek, Matt Fajack, Win Phillips, Ed Poppell |
| FROM: | J. Bernard Machen |
| RE: | Establishment of an Information Technology Steering Group |
As you know from earlier conversations, I will be putting a major focus on improving information technology this year. To start this, with my approval, Kyle has appointed Chuck Frazier as Interim CIO. Chuck will work through Kyle and senior leadership to facilitate and help carry out some in-course adjustments designed to better prepare us to operate under a CIO. Some of the needed adjustments have been in process for some time and will continue as I have approved and directed. The process for developing the other specific changes, methods, and timeframes will involve two groups. The first group will be comprised mainly of technical sorts. It is called the IT Action Plan Task Force and Chuck will chair it. While this action plan task force can do a lot of the ground work, idea development, and document preparation. I want there to be a second senior leadership group that helps shape and that ultimately screens proposals that come to me.
This second group will be called the IT Steering Group. It will be comprised of the eight people listed above. The timeframe set for this IT change work is short. Both groups should be ready to start on or around October 10, 2008. I would like a final set of recommended actions approved by and forwarded from your group by January 30, 2009. When the action plan comes to me for final consideration, it should have the full agreement of this IT Steering Group.
There is an action plan document we will discuss later that outlines the steps in the process, methods of engaging the stakeholder groups, and methods of communications and interactions during the process of developing recommendations. For now, I need only your agreement to serve.