OMES highlighted in new book: One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
Strategies employed by the Office
of Management and Enterprise Services to unify the state’s information
technology under one umbrella are highlighted in an important new book on
organizational leadership, One Mission: How
Leaders Build a Team of Teams, by bestselling author Chris Fussell.
One Mission is a follow-up
to the New York Times bestseller Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for
a Complex World authored by Gen. Stanley McChrystal with Fussell. In Team
of Teams, McChrystal and Fussell articulate concepts used by the Joint
Special Operations Command in Iraq and Afghanistan to create a more adaptable
and effective team.
One Mission presents OMES
Information Services as a case study in how to successfully apply these
concepts to one of the most complex projects in state history: the State of
Oklahoma’s unification of IT assets.
“Our inclusion in this important
book is an honor,” said Secretary of Finance, Administration and Information
Technology Preston L. Doerflinger, who is the director of OMES. “Our experience
shows that it’s possible to rethink government and employ forward-thinking,
non-bureaucratic concepts to how we do business. Such thinking and tactics
allow OMES to bring more value to our partner agencies and to Oklahoma
taxpayers.”
The Information Technology
Consolidation and Coordination Act of 2011 charged OMES with increasing the
effectiveness and efficiency of the state’s technology services. Over the past
six years, OMES has reduced redundancies, made large strides toward unifying
technology and has completed unification of more than 100 mandated and
voluntary agencies at a currently estimated reduced spending and projected
savings of about $283 million.
A critical tool employed by OMES
Information Services from Team of Teams is the use of a daily video
teleconference accessible across the entire organization. Typically
running 20-40 minutes, the daily call focuses on current issues, what the
organization needs to accomplish before the next touch point and what new
intelligence has been uncovered since the last touch point. It is an effective
means to focus the state’s IT resources on specific outcomes and empower team
members to achieve desirable results as quickly as possible. This tool has
allowed OMES to become more efficient and pass cost savings back to the
agencies we serve while maintaining, and in many cases improving, service
levels.
“Using
the tools from Team of Teams has helped us refocus and better coordinate
our business,” said Oklahoma Chief Information Officer Bo Reese, who leads OMES
Information Services. “By uniting our people around one vision, we increase our
performance and can better serve our partner agencies.”
Media Contact
MICHAEL BAKER Director of Public Affairs (405) 522-4265 | michael.baker@omes.ok.gov
About the Office of Management and Enterprise Services
The Office of Management and Enterprise Services
provides financial, property, purchasing, human resources and
information technology services to all state agencies, and assists the
Governor’s Office on budgetary policy matters. Our mission: Supporting our partners through unified business services. For more information, visit OMES.OK.gov.
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