Recommendation 7

Pressures on spending in the current climate require better delivery for improved efficiency at lower cost.9 However, competing pressures and changing priorities will present challenges to the delivery of the Roadmap, despite CDDO’s best endeavours. CDDO is using quarterly assessments, supported by its digital dashboard, to monitor progress against commitments and identify where departments may be going off track and the steps needed to correct this.10 CDDO must maintain suitable levers to keep progress from stalling.11 As a committee, we believe in transparency as a means of holding people to account and in our view CDDO should publish updates to keep departments to the tasks they have committed to.12 Senior leadership understanding of digital