DETE INTRANET STRATEGY 2002 - 2004

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INTRODUCTION

Background

PricewaterhouseCoopers were engaged by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) to assist in the development of an Intranet Strategy.

Objective

The objective of this project was to develop a Strategy for the Department and its eight Executive Offices `which will enable the various divisions of the organisation to share information and to have a single corporate wide system for accessing information of common interest'. In addition, the aim of the project was to identify processes, currently manually based which would lend themselves to an automated Intranet solution. This document details the findings of the project and presents the Department's Intranet Strategy for 2002 - 2003

This report is structured as follows:

Project Approach
This section outlines the approach used to conduct the project.

Management Summary
A Management Summary of the Intranet Strategy.

Assessment of current environment
This section presents an assessment of the candidate processes and services, information requirements, infrastructure, applications, organisation and ma nagement within the Department and its Executive Offices.

Key Drivers
The Key drivers for the Intranet - derived from the Department's Strategy Statement, supporting strategies (e.g. ePublic Services Strategy) and senior management input - are outlined in this section.

Intranet Vision Statement
The Department's Strategic Vision for the Intranet is stated in this section.

Target Architectures
In this section, the target architecture for the Intranet is outlined. The four key components: governance,

content management; application; and infrastructure and support are defined.

Benefits
The benefits underpinning the investment in the Intranet are detailed in this section.

Implementing the Intranet
The component projects required to implement the Intranet and the overall programme and investment requirements are set out in this section. In addition, the recommended first steps are described.