All Public Sector organisations, whether in Central Government, Local Government, the Wider Public Sector, Non Departmental Public Bodies or agencies face the same issues regarding economic pressures and increasing service requirements outlined in section 2.1 of this strategy.
This strategy will provide the UK public sector with a secure, efficient infrastructure that is available to all. All public sector CIOs are accountable for implementation of the strategy within their local environment. As a guiding principle, CIOs are expected to take the approach that simplified and standardised corporate services are the norm – reuse of existing applications, shared services, designs and solutions will become the default position. Customisation of solutions will be challenged by CIO Council peers as well as Accounting Officers as this will reduce the potential economies of scale available to the public sector and increase the risk to delivery (to the ICT strategy as well as wider in terms of Information Assurance & Security, sustainability and improving access to public services by the citizen).
