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Resource Planning to Support Delivery

We have developed a detailed action plan to accompany the Strategy which is based around 4 workstreams.

  1. Strategic Framework
  2. Technology and Systems
  3. Awareness and Skills
  4. New Ways of Working

Within each workstream there will be activities ranging from those which are relatively quick and easy to achieve to those which are currently aspirational but which we would not want to lose sight of. There will also be activities that will run through the life of the Strategy, particularly around compliance, which reflect a business-as-usual type activity, but which need to be recognised as essential foundations for effective Information and Data Management.

Delivery of this strategy is recognised as a key priority for the organisation, but we need to accommodate its delivery within our finite resources and aligned to a range of parallel and competing priorities.  Accordingly, specific timescales for objectives defined within the action plan will be managed through the business planning process.  This will require decisions to be made about short-term priorities, recognising that some elements of the action plan will extend beyond the 2021-2026 period of the strategy.