Role of the Australian Government Information Management Office
The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) with the Department of Finance and Deregulation will perform the following roles and functions.
- Identifying the need for common approaches (in areas such as standards, platforms, applications, infrastructure, business process and aggregated ICT procurement) and preparing the associated business cases for the Secretaries’ ICT Governance Board (SIGB);
- Where supported by the SIGB, appropriate involvement in the development and implementation of common approaches (this includes a spectrum ranging from a leadership role through provision of some resources, to participation in the governance arrangements);
- Strategic management of key ICT suppliers;
- Functional leadership of the APS ICT professional community;
- Undertaking an annual benchmarking exercise of agencies against the common efficiency and effectiveness metrics and then providing agencies with detailed feedback and the SIGB with a summary report identifying key trends;
- Leading the Chief Information Officer Committee (CIOC), the Business Process Transformation Committee (BPTC) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Forum in identifying emerging issues and trends, and delivering potential responses for consideration by the SIGB;
- Annually constructing the whole-of-government ICT workforce plan and identifying any key issues together with advice for addressing them to the SIGB;
- Scrutinising new policy proposals against areas agreed for opt-out by the SIGB;
- Scrutinising opt-out requests against agreed criteria and providing advice to the SIGB and the Ministerial Committee;
- Facilitating the spread of good practice;
- Maintaining a single authoritative ‘source of truth’ for ICT policies;
- Providing input to SIGB on a strategic vision for the use of ICT within Australian Government agencies;
- Mapping whole-of-government initiatives against broader government strategy; and
- Identifying whole-of-government priorities impacting on individual projects, for example: resource constraints in the marketplace that would guide project scheduling.
Contact for information on this page: AGIMO.feedback@finance.gov.au