NASCIO Brief Focuses on Best Practices for IT Vendor Relationships

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) on Thursday released a brief focusing on state CIO/IT partner relationships.

NASCIO says the brief focuses on strategies and five recommendations for IT partners when engaging with CIOs:

• Be prepared
• Anticipate and understand a state’s problems
• Know the best methods for securing and having meetings
• Develop and cultivate trust
• Know how to use lobbyists effectively

These focus areas were identified when the NASCIO Corporate Leadership Council interviewed state CIOs in 2014.

"As states face increasingly complex and often time-sensitive challenges, having an ecosystem of reliable and capable information technology partners is an imperative for success. Those CIOs and IT partners that work together to share ideas, best practices and emerging technologies are best able to respond to these challenges in an agile manner that produces results for the citizens. This paper helps identify some of those best practices," said Microsoft’s Kim Nelson, who chaired the Corporate Leadership Council during the project.

Read the brief at www.nascio.org/SuccessfulRelationships/