In reply to Ana Seliskar.

Hi Ana. Thank you for your excellent remark. Yes, you are right that if all benefits only came after 5-7 years, no one would even care to start the journey. So this is why any good Strategic Roadmap to Fast IT will balance the short-term wins (needed to establish credibility and to support the transformational efforts), with long-term structural initiatives (which are the marks of true leaders of Government IT transformation).

Examples of short-term wins may be: enhance the collaboration environment of civil servants (e.g. WiFi, video, etc.) or citizens (e.g. remote expert for Government Services); eStore for common IT requests; launch of a few high-profile DevOps projects; etc.

Examples of long-term changes may be: re-organisation of the IT department according to the services offered, rather than the technologies required; evolution of procurement practices towards services rather than products; Cyber Security practice; etc.

Does this make sense to you? Please let me know as I know that your experience around Government IT is second to none! Thanks again.