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... 78 Strategies for Promoting Sustainable DOT EIPs Agencies, divisions, IT managers and program leaders that are establishing portals and working to make them more sustainable may face several challenges. These challenges, described in Chapter 7, will relate to communicating the value of change for the organization and educating and engaging the right people to implement the changes.
From page 79...
... Strategies for Promoting Sustainable DOT EIPs 79 staff in IT, technical program areas, human resources, and procurement. These individuals need to understand the desired change and its value to the organization.
From page 80...
... 80 Guidance for Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals 8.6 Establish and Maintain Policies and Processes Policies and processes are most easily established when there is a focused effort to open dialogue among different functional areas of a DOT (e.g., IT, human resources, and procurement)
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... Strategies for Promoting Sustainable DOT EIPs 81 Steps to developing new procurement policies include the following: • Get executive-level champions in procurement, human resources, and IT to work together to understand each other's needs. • Reach out to and educate procurement staff about IT needs.
From page 82...
... 82 Guidance for Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals 8.10 Conclusion EIPs offer a tremendous opportunity for state, county, and city DOTs to more efficiently and successfully achieve their mission. Sustainable, resilient EIPs can help an agency achieve its goals for safe and secure transportation, system preservation, quality of service, environmental stewardship, community vitality, and economic prosperity by offering unparalleled customer service to internal and external users.

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