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91 Assessment Tools and Checklists A P P E N D I X A Informaon Improves Agency Decision-Making Staff at all levels have easy, efficient, and managed access to the right informa on at the right me in the right form to make good decisions and effec vely carry out their responsibili es. We use the best available informa on to target our available funds and resources where they will have greatest impact.
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92 Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation Issues/Improvement Needs Priority of Taking Acon to Address Issue/Need A Improving Informaon for Beer Internal Decisions Improve ability to get reliable answers to basic ques ons about what we manage and what we are delivering Urgent High Moderate Low Improve ability to provide senior management with an up-to-date picture of key agency performance indicators Urgent High Moderate Low Improve ability to analyze implicaons of future major investment strategies Urgent High Moderate Low Improve ability to make beer-informed decisions about allocang funds or priorizing projects Urgent High Moderate Low Improve ability to ensure that available funds are fully leveraged Urgent High Moderate Low Improve ability to maximize maintenance and operaons efficiency based on informaon about staff and equipment availability and locaon Urgent High Moderate Low Improve ability to track current project delivery status (schedule, scope, and budget)
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Assessment Tools and Checklists 93 Risk Likelihood (if no ac on is taken) Consequences/ Impacts Score (Likelihood × Impacts)
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94 Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation Pracce Use of this Pracce A Improving Informaon for Internal Decisions We have idenfied informaon resources that should be shared across business units and therefore managed from an agency-wide perspecve.
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Assessment Tools and Checklists 95 Strengths Weaknesses Opportuni es Threats • Ample pool of available skilled data analysts •Well-defined informa on management processes and roles • Dependable funding streams for informa on management •Welldocumented informa on assets •Modern tools and technologies • Shallow bench strength in data management and analysis • Limited awareness of good informa on management prac ces • Lack of stable funding for informa on management •Unreliable data •Undocumented informa on assets •Outdated tools and technologies •New performance management requirements •New funding for data/informa on improvements •New informa on sources (e.g., GPS data streams) •New analysis and visualiza on tools • Cross-agency collabora on opportuni es • Loss of funding • Loss of specialized exper se • Increasing volume and complexity of informa on requests •New expecta ons for open data • Discon nued support for exis ng technology plaorms • Discon nued availability of current external data source Table A-5.
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96 Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation Informaon Life Cycle Phase/Issues A Plan Are intended uses idenfied?
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Assessment Tools and Checklists 97 Criteria Ra ng Consistency with informaon management vision and roadmap High Moderate Low Consistency with other agency plans (informaon technology strategic plan, GIS strategic plan) High Moderate Low Time or cost savings High Moderate Low Sustainability -- staff capabilies to maintain and existence of champion to support High Moderate Low Coordinaon and integraon (score low if duplicates exisng funcons; score high if coordinated or integrated across informaon management funcons [web, data, library, records, etc.]
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