Information Systems Strategic Plan (ISSP) 2015-2019

DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION

Information Systems Strategic Plan

2015?2019

OUR NATURE

Our nature is fundamental to who we are. It has always been our natural advantage to our identity as Kiwis and to our economy. Conserving it lies in all our hands. Our nature will thrive when each of us engages our hearts, hands and minds in helping conserve our unique environment. It's our nature to love or lose. Toi tu te marae a Tangaroa, Toi tu he marae a Tane-Mahuta, Toi tu te tangata. If the land is well and the sea is well, the people will thrive.

Walkers on Mount Sunday, Rangitata Valley. Photo: Brian Dobbie, DOC

VISION

New Zealand is the greatest living space on Earth Kore he whi i tua atu i a Aotearoa, hei wahi noho i te ao

PURPOSE

Our Nature ? conservation leadership for what makes New Zealand special.

Enjoying the scenery at Pell Stream, a valley near Lewis Pass.

Photo: Hugh Van Noorden

Director-General's foreword

Protecting our nature, our treasure

All over the country community groups and DOC's partners play an active role protecting and treasuring the natural landscape which defines us as a nation.

To focus our effort and move towards our vision for New Zealand to be the greatest living space on earth, the Department of Conservation has clear targets for how we ourselves will contribute to conserving New Zealand's natural environment ? our biodiversity, fresh water, and marine environments, as well as managing our historic heritage, tourism and community engagement activities.

In our conservation work we increasingly rely on high performing information, communication and technology (ICT) systems, services and enterprise information knowledge management, to co-ordinate our efforts, volunteers and tourism activity.

Information communication technology (ICT) at DOC is about ways information and technology are used to deliver better services more efficiently to enhance our conservation effort ? about doing the right things at the right time for the right result ? about being quicker, faster, smarter, and making it easier for our people to do their work.

This Information Systems Strategic Plan 2015-2019 will enable transformative change aligned to government direction for our ICT at DOC. It will enable a more mobile workforce, enhance the ways we manage relationships with our business and social partners, and support improvements to how we manage our biodiversity data.

" In our conservation work we rely on high performing information, communication and technology (ICT) systems, services and enterprise information knowledge management. "

LOU SANSON

This Information Systems Strategic Plan is forward looking and will introduce more coherence into our ICT systems planning to support our conservation effort.

Lou Sanson Director-General

Department of Conservation Information Systems Strategic Plan 2015-2019

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From the CIO

A guiding systems strategy for DOC

This Information Systems Strategic Plan (ISSP) is the guiding strategy for planning and implementing new information communication and technology (ICT) initiatives for DOC, and the highest level planning document for ICT across our organisation.

The State Services Commission (SSC) says: "the ISSP guides and informs decisions on any changes to technology and is an integral part of an organisation's future focus".

DOC's ISSP is a keynote document and publicly available on our website to all DOC's key stakeholders, business and social partners, interest and community groups, volunteers, and ICT suppliers.

This ISSP is a strategic view of the future for DOC's IT systems and support and will help us understand the investment DOC intends making in its technology. This will be followed by a detailed programme of work once the level of investment has been determined. The specific details about the proposed programme of work forms part of our business planning cycle, supported by technology and services roadmaps managed and delivered by a portfolio office that is being established.

Our thinking and planning to refresh this latest ISSP for DOC developed following discussions about our organisation's ICT needs and intentions, aligned to the DOC's Four Year Business Plan, along with extensive discussions with key internal stakeholders over their aspirations and needs for how they wish to transform their businesses.

From our analysis of business feedback and discussions we concluded there should be strategic ICT emphasis in DOC on four themes and roadmaps outlined here later. We expect to refresh this ISSP in October 2015, strengthening it to further reflect our business and partner needs.

Meanwhile, we will continue to endeavour to be responsive to the needs of our clients, customers and business partners, and continue to refine the information and technology direction of the Department of Conservation.

Ashley Mudford Chief Information Officer April 2015

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