Alignment

Our Corporate Plan 2020-2024 defines the operating environment, people and capability, and risk management and oversight needed for the Department to achieve our purposes. To show how this ICT strategy is aligned to meet those needs, the following table maps corporate plan outcomes against the Strategic Priorities outlined in this ICT Strategy.

Corporate Plan 2020-2024	ICT Strategy 2021-2023 Strategic Priority
	1	2	3	4
Our Purposes:
1. Growing our economy, incomes and creating jobs	Our ICT strategy will ensure we continue to deliver and enhance the digital capabilities needed to achieve the purposes set out in our Corporate Plan. Specifically, our focus on data and analytics, security, and cross-government collaboration and information management will support multiple policy outcomes.
2. Vibrant and resilient regions
3. Strengthening families and communities
4. Enhancing Australia’s international and national security
5. Govern well
6. Preparing well to respond to critical issues
Operating Environment
Promote a whole-of-government perspective
Adapt to a fast-paced and changing environment
Meet the increasing needs and expectations of the public
Bring discipline and structure to delivery of our purposes
Maintain strong links with partner agencies and taskforces
Maintain an increasingly interconnected landscape
People & Capability
Build workforce capability
Build digital capability
Promote inclusion, diversity and collaboration among our workforce
Equip people with experience and insights
Improve collaboration within PM&C and across APS
Provide simple & secure access to information
Provide flexible working arrangements
Improve people’s well being
Risk Management & Oversight
Manage risk to staff including by embedding physical and mental safety considerations in day-to-day operations
Manage risk to critical enablers to government including through maintenance of deep expertise and robust systems and processes.
Manage risk in quality of advice provided to government by supporting decision making

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