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City of Atlanta - Business Process Reengineering (BPR) of the City’s Information Technology processes Summary At the time of this engagement, the City had just elected a new Mayor. The Mayor wanted to make sure key city government processes were effective and efficient. RFPs were released for BPR studies and analyses of the City’s critical processes. These processes included HR, Finance, Procurement, Customer Service and Information Technology. enGenius Consulting evaluated 8 of the key IT Management processes and provided recommendations for improvement. Problem A change in the leadership of a governmental entity, in this case a city, is an opportunity for establishing a baseline of the efficiency and effectiveness of the services and programs offered by the city. These services and programs have been provided via a city infrastructure that was inherited through a series of past administrations, perhaps with not much improvement or change. The new major, wanted to have recent and accurate information about the status of key city processes before investing limited budget funds and scarce resources, on improvement projects related to the evaluated functions, departments and services. Approach 64+ key city stakeholders were interviewed in order to gather information on the “As-Is” state of the 8 Key IT Management processes selected by the city. These 8 key IT management processes essentially represented the main governance mechanism(s) utilized by the city to make and prioritize technology decisions. The As-Is processes were compared with “Best Practices” information obtained by interviewing 6 comparable peer organizations (other cities and private industry). Pertinent documentation was also extensively collected, reviewed and analyzed. From the comparison and evaluation of the “As-Is” environment with the Best Practices approach, a set of recommendations (the “To-Be” state) were formulated and presented via the report. Results A 600+ page report was delivered to the city along with a final oral presentation to the City of Atlanta Chamber of Commerce , who provided the funds to the city for the project. Several interim presentations were provided to other high level stakeholder groups in order to gain support, understanding and buy-in. The report was accepted as a “CIO Mandate” or road map, to be used by the new CIO so that no time would be wasted in implementing the recommended changes and improvements. A time line was provided which divided the recommendations into the following categories: Triage (immediate attention), 6-Month Plan, 1-Year Plan and 3-Year Plan horizons. The report and its recommendations were so well accepted by the incoming CIO that he included the following in the 2004-2006 City of Atlanta IT Strategic Plan: “Several recommendations were made by the enGenius report that would help link information technology to the City’s business goals and directions, and would allow the City to use technology more effectively in providing high quality services to the public…” The City’s strategic plan document also mentioned that as a result of the enGenius Study and its recommendations, the City has put forth the following major accomplishments:
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