The county has established four goals that illustrate the long-term values it has regarding use of technology to serve the public and the county agencies:

• Efficiency
• Public access and customer service
• Transparency and accountability for decisions
• Risk management

OIRM mission is to identify, promote and facilitate innovative and effective information technology management countywide.

OIRM vision is that all County information and information-based services are cost-effective, easy to access and use by the public, private companies and internal staff through web-based technologies with appropriate security and privacy controls.

OIRM provides strong information technology leadership for King County government by partnering with clients to develop the best information technology solutions and provide quality delivery to King County enterprise level IT services.

The Office of Information Resource Management is chartered to ensure a common technology vision, planning, oversight and management of information technology in the county. Its roles in carrying out this responsibility include:

• The development of an information technology strategic plan, with annual updates, to establish objectives for information technology investments in the County;
• Recommending for funding those information technology investments which best achieve the established objectives; and
• Developing guidelines for the management of information technology projects, and then monitoring project implementation to assure projects stay on track.
• Security and privacy
• Printing and graphics
• Cable communications
• Budget and fiscal management
• Applications development, implementation and support
• Enterprise and customer service
• Project management
• Radio communication services
• System engineering and communications
• Network engineering
• Telecommunications
• Network, help desk and data center operations
• Human resources and labor relations
• Service portfolio management