Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Time: 2:10 - 3:10 pm
Room: Monarch Room A

As conflicting forces act on governments to provide better service, reduce costs, share information, and increase security; government IT needs a plan to respond. A well-defined Enterprise Architecture allows the relationships between people, processes, systems, and data to be documented. The critical success factor is tying design decisions to drivers in the environment in logical chain of causality.

Presenter:

Christopher H. Baum
Vice President, Research Area Director
Public Sector
Gartner, Inc.

Christopher Baum is a vice president and research area director in Gartner Research, where he specializes in e-government strategies. He focuses on electronic voting, Internet taxation and network security. Mr. Baum began investigating voting technology in 1998. He was a witness to the first legally binding public Internet election in U.S. history. He has testified on voting to the House of Representatives, House Administrations Committee and the City of New York Select Committee on Technology in Government and the Governmental Operations. Mr. Baum is frequently quoted in the trade press.

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Baum was vice president, research and analysis director for the Data Networking and Healthcare Information Systems teams at Datapro, before it was acquired by Gartner.
Mr. Baum earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the University of Texas at El Paso and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix.