Implementing Criminal Justice Technologies Readings

The Implementing Criminal Justice Technologies seminar will be much more effective if students have a good working knowledge of the lateset trends, issues, and ideas surrounding the course topics. The following readings and web links have been supplied by faculty members involved in the Implementing Criminal Justice Technologies seminar to supply an attendee with a base of knowledge on which the seminar will build.
RECENT ADDITIONS
EA Best Practices (added 08/27/2002)
by David Sims, sharpAngle.com		 Roger Fournier of Information Week has spent a good deal of time culling the best practices he's seen in enterprise architecture. You and I are the beneficiaries of ten of the best pointers on how to develop a successful enterprise architecture.
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE CIO?
From the CIO Executive Research Center at http://www.cio.com

What is a CIO

 Describes the CIO role in terms of title, responsibilities, authority, organizational importance and alternative titles such as VP or director of information technology, system or services

From Gartner Group, Inc.:
Mission of the CIO

 Describes the CIO role in terms of mission, reporting relationship, responsibilities, skills needed and personal qualities


Positive Support Review Inc.'s CIO Position Descriptions

Describes the CIO role in terms of Position Purpose, and Problems and Challenges

The CIO-Past and Future

 This piece interviews 7 CIOs to discuss the role of the CIO three to five years ago, and currently
WHAT DO ORGANIZATIONS SAY THEY LOOK FOR IN A CIO?
HOW DO OTHERS PERCEIVE THE CIO?


Question:
What are the professional experience requirements and personal qualifications most frequently required by your clients in executive searches for the position of Chief Information Officer?

 Lists the top 10 prerequisites for CIOs, as identified by a leading CIO executive search firm
The CIO as Coach This article posits that the successful CIO will not simply listen to the customer, but will lead the business to the end results, and offers six guidelines for doing so
The CIO as Valet Compares the "valet model of IT", where organizational leadership "drops off" the IT problems with the CIO for handling, with the "fiduciary model of IT management" (aka "federated IT" and "IT democracy"), where business units execute and are responsible for their IT investment plan, and the CIO defines the rules on how the investment is managed.
Change Agents Describes the CIO as a Change Agent (acting to change organizational culture; necessarily developing interdependent organizational relationships across organizational boundaries)
Also describes the CIO as Chief Project Officer (CPO)
HOW IS THE ROLE OF THE CIO DIFFERENT FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR CIO?
FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE CIO?
The Role of the State Chief Information Officer Describes the role of the State CIO generally, The Role of the CIO Today, and The Future of The State CIO
Razorwired This article describes the issues and challenges involved in bringing IT resources to prison management
William Bratton, Digital Crime Fighter This article describes the challenges faced by William Bratton, New York City's Police Commissioner, in creating and implementing the Compstat crime pattern software
HOW DOES THE CIO EVALUATE WHICH PROJECTS TO UNDERTAKE?
HOW DOES THE CIO BUDGET FOR PROJECTS?
WHY DO PROJECTS FAIL?
WHEN AND HOW DO YOU KILL A TROUBLED PROJECT?
Hidden Assets:
A conversation about organizational capital with the codirector of MIT's Center for eBusiness		 Discusses the intangible value of "organizational capital" · Also discusses the significan project costs involved in IT projects, such as non-IT personnel time, which are typically not recognized as project costs
Project Management Describes the results of a survey of CIOs reporting on the success rating of IT projects in terms of completion, on time and on budget · Also describes the principal problems causing such unsuccessful results
How to Kill a Troubled Project:
The News is in About IT Projects, And it is Not Good		 This flowchart provides criteria for recognizing troubled projects, and a process for deciding how to address them
WHAT ARE THE SPECIAL CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATED CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS?
WHAT ARE THE MOTIVATIONS FOR PARTICIPATING IN ICJIS INFORMATION SHARING?
WHO "OWNS" THE SYSTEM?
WHO PLAYS THE ROLE OF THE CIO IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ICJIS PROJECT?
To Catch A Thief Covering the challenges on ICJIS integration projects, including "All Points Bulletin", a sidebar to the preceding article describing the 5 capabilities of ICJIS projects, as described by Dave Roberts, Deputy Executive Director of SEARCH
National Information Architecture: Toward National Sharing of Governmental Information Describes the motivations for information sharing by affected governmental units o Posits a leadership role for State CIOs in "building compliant statewide networks serving all local and state governmental entities" and "using all available methods to encourage intra-locality information sharing"
An Information Integration Planning Model Describes a planning model and outlines critical issues and challenges that influence the process of integration and sharing
COPING TECHNIQUES FOR THE CIO 
The CIO Starter Kit Gives a set of suggestions which new CIOs should consider as they start a new CIO position
For the Less-Technical CIO:
"Hi, Technology"		 This article describes trends toward less technical CIOs who bring business minds and executive-level perspectives and communications skills to the CIO task, and offers several elements for success, including: intertwining business and IT; establishing credibility with IT staff; and staying technologically current.
For The First CIO ever named by an Organization: "You Go First" This article describes the challenges of being an organization's first CIO, including: establishing credibility with IT users, staff and fellow executives; creating a unified technology infrastructure; centralizing IT and aligning it with the business, and implementing companywide IT standards.