3.2 The Committee of Public Accounts criticised the lack of detail in the Strategy published in March 2011. The Cabinet Office provides some of the necessary information in the Government ICT Strategy - Strategic Implementation Plan (the Plan) published in October 2011.
3.3 The Cabinet Office states the purpose of the Plan is to "translate the vision into real outcomes", but our assessment suggests it does not yet go this far. In particular:
• it does not provide a route map for how and when departments will move to the new ICT solutions;
• nor does it set out how the Board will work with central government and ICT suppliers to overcome barriers to change, although it has recognised this as a risk. Our international research found that those responsible for influencing government organisations to use new approaches to ICT often underestimated the effort required to embed behaviour change; and
• there is a risk that government has not fully thought through the additional resources needed in the 19 delivery areas over the next 18 months. The Plan contains no estimates of resources.