Optimizing IT Operations: Elevating Performance in an Era of Declining Budgets

Modern technology can perform a vital role in the provision of critically-needed services to public sector organizations' constituencies. Its effective use can reduce ongoing operational costs, improve services delivery, enable better management through integrated data and enhance communications, among other objectives.

But the question on most managers' minds today is: How can I deploy and leverage technology in this time of sharply constrained budgets?

This KPMG Government Institute webcast features the experiences of individuals making technology decisions for their public sector organizations, including discussions about how they are managing to "do more with less."

Among the concepts explored are consolidation, shared services, outsourcing and cloud computing, along with several leading practices and lessons learned in the public sector.

Topics in this webcast will include:

• How organizations can get started, even if they have only a limited capacity for initial or upfront investment Achieving the desired value, selling the change to leadership and users, and strategies to avoid timeline delays and budget overruns
• What kind of gains/improvements to expect
• How to build a business case to justify the strategies selected
• How to demystify cloud computing and successfully integrate the cloud in public sector organizations: questions about its security, risk and impact on end users
• How organizations that have or are considering shared services can build off existing investments to achieve further benefits