COMDTINST 5230.62
9. WEB BASED APPLICATIONS AND INNOVATIONS.
a. As in any area of Information Technology, innovation is encouraged and highly valued.
Historically, the majority of innovative initiatives have originated in the field, not Headquarters,
but local solutions sometimes conflict with Enterprise strategies.
b. What may be an easy and inexpensive innovation locally may be far more costly to implement at
the Enterprise level. The Enterprise view must consider the issues mandated by the Coast Guard
IT Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) processes, including long-term support,
training, security, cost, and management issues that are easy to overlook in a local initiative.
c. The CPIC process has monetary thresholds and compliance issues not present in local innovation,
and which often get triggered when Programs or the Innovation Council attempt to capitalize
upon a local initiative and deliver it to the Enterprise. In particular, local initiatives seldom have
to consider the incremental cost of Government staff time, where an Enterprise system may have
to seek budgetary support for staff or contractor support to sustain it.
d. In cases where an innovation (or its basic concept) is adopted Enterprise-wide, local Commanders
may have to abandon their local initiative and adopt the Enterprise solution. One benefit to the
local Commander is that this frees up resources with which to pursue further innovation, although
it has the appearance of an unjust reward for their innovative initiative.
10. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT AND IMPACT CONSIDERATIONS. Environmental aspect and
impact considerations were examined in this Directive and have been determined to not be
applicable.
11. FORMS/REPORTS. None.
T. W. ALLEN/s/
Chief of Staff
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