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Chief Enterprise Architect Ben Word Leaving CDT

Word, who's been in his current position for more than four years, will be shifting from CDT to the state Judicial Branch next month.

Ben Word, the state’s Chief Enterprise Architect, has announced that he’s leaving the California Department of Technology (CDT) and is taking another position with the state.

Word will be joining the Judicial Branch of California, the nation’s largest state justice system, with more than 2,000 judicial officers and more than 18,000 court workers. Along with the executive and legislative branches, it makes up the state’s government.

Word has been Chief Enterprise Architect for just over four years. It’s unclear what his new role will be in the Judicial Branch. 

As a panelist in December’s State of Technology event in Sacramento, Word spoke about the office adopting a “user-centered focus,” which the agency hopes will get it “closer to the actual end user” of the IT services it provides to state, county, local and even federal governments. 

As Techwire reported at the time: “An enterprisewide gap analysis helped inform an enterprise portfolio planning road map for IT projects, Word said, highlighting the value of shared services that can be built once but leveraged multiple times. The agency has been reducing duplicative services and recently migrated to a single email solution selected by its customers.”

At that event, Word also talked about the state's new Cloud Readiness Playbook.

“This is where we’re going to be leveraging — it’s a real collaboration between the customers and the vendor community as well," Word said at that event. "So, this is where we’ve got to figure out the government’s part of this. How do we get you guys engaged so that you can share some of your experiences of what’s going on out there?” 

Dennis Noone is Executive Editor of Industry Insider. He is a career journalist, having worked at small-town newspapers and major metropolitan dailies including USA Today in Washington, D.C.