Research On The British Government Chief Technology Officer Council

British chief technology officer (CTO) Council is a new mode integrated by different agencies, as well as electronic government during the information age. It is consisted of chief technology officer in different level of agencies, responsible for designing the development frame work of electronic government, which means architecting across agencies enterprise policy and mode. The content and operating of British chief technology officer council are quite different from the hierarchical government structure's. As for the advanced nation in developing electronic government, British chief technology officer Council has its representations. This paper consists of three parts:In the first part, the paper describes the background of British chief technology officer Council, the characteristic of British chief technology officer Council position, and the functions of council. Initially, the ideological and theoretical development of the UK context of public administration reform process and the government were sorted out. We analyze the current situation of UK electronic government development and its structure. It is summed up that the CTO was needed by transition from the production of the industrial times to the information times, the reform from new public management philosophy to the new concept of public service, the civic and political life, the rapid development of economic activities, the Government restructuring and deepening reform. UK e-government construction started early and made adequate preparation including structural reform. The strong lead agency, comprehensive management system and professional team were established. Especially, they can persist in combining theory with practice as a positivism development line and always keep in the world's advanced level of e-government. This offers a summary of healthy development of e-government pre-conditions and influencing factors to our country. Then, we analyze the characteristic of CTO's position, which is the element of council, and describe the relationship between CTO, CIO, as well as CKO(Chief Knowledge officer) positions and responsible areas. CTO is the information enterprise management theory introduced by government, it adapted the demand of government functions revolution in information age. It also offers theory basis for building the similar position in our country. Finally, we summarize the CTO's functions, as well as the relationship between CTO and CIO's issues.In the second part, the main part of the article, gives a detailed analysis of working content and model of British chief technology officer (CTO) Council. As for the working content, CTO introduced the enterprise framework, built the strategy of British government across agencies. This framework hopes to build once in order to cut the opportunity cost which belongs to the long-term construction cycle and obstacles during the revolution. The release 1 includes Reference Model (xGEARM) to enable communication through an agreed set of terms and definitions, database of practice, portfolio mode of potential investment opportunity, business function view, strategy management and xGEa development tendency. In the working model, we analyze the CTO council meeting summary between 2005 and 2006, understand the human resource structure, the working features, and the policy tendency.The CTO Council, consists of the chief technology officers of the public sectors, is responsible for the achievement of supporting of'joining-up'at the technical level. The CTO Council stands for every sector of the CIOs, and effectively carries out the technical level related work at the ending period of the CTO Council. It makes the plan of development related with technologies and carries out it, and also gives standardized solutions to support the transformational government implementation plan. The (CTO) Council's high work efficiency originates from the different mode of previous work, the tasking members work in a "collegiate " (academic) work-based model, rather than the traditional hierarchical or Executive session-type work. They share a common goal of the efficient usage of information technology to achieve the transformation of government functions, including joined-up government, the function changes in the technology-driven government departments, improvement of the government information technology resources'work performance, sharing and making standardized solutions of common problems using technology. The CTO, as the point of the game teams, needs to balance the department heads, chief information officer, the cabinet office and every other parties'needs to form a interest community and to establish the coordination mechanisms. In the work achievement, the CTO introduces the concept of enterprise architecture and establishes the British cross-government enterprise architecture. It hopes that to avoid the e-government construct opportunity costs long construction period and difficulties brought about by the transformation through the once-build and re-use of this framework. The first edition of strategies includes the reference model, database experience, opportunity portfolio of potential exemplars, business functional area view, service business functions, governance and planning programs and the future direction of development. In order to clarify the Commission's policy direction, the second part analyzed the CTO Council minutes held in 05-06 years. It concluded that the CIO Council is a comprehensive organizational structure, its leadership is definite, and the essence is a coordination mechanism. In macro, the goal to build the construction is accorded to the government overall interests and every parties own interests. In micro, chief technology officer council itself is a community of interests, it created a information industry development model in the government.In the third part, there was a comparative analysis between the top-level design framework for the UK e-government, the E-government management system which is represented by CTO and the current situation of China's development. China's top e-government framework and design work is still in early stages, lack of appropriate jobs. An effective, comprehensive e-government construction management system is still not established. There is no uniform standard in all levels of professional and technical personnel responsible for the establishment of posts, resulting in fuzzy objectives and scope, powers and responsibilities of imbalance. Operations staff couldn't establish an effective communication with the top-level design of the architectcan. No integration team could be upbuilt to make amalgamation between business collaboration and information technology. In order to avoid disorder, repetitive and low rate of return on the construction, the overall framework of the e-government construction of China has entered a period of calm and reflection. In this case, the UK CTO council experience in relevant fields will bring benefit for China in adjustment strategies and deepening the development in the period of twelfth fifth-year.