Implications for the State sector and organisations

A successful e-government architecture is one that is used by all of the public sector. In aligning with the architecture, agencies will need to take a long-term view and make the architecture part of their overall strategy development and allow the strategy to be influenced accordingly.

In addition, for agencies the architecture means:

• a new set of design principles and associated change in culture;

• lower costs and better results;

• easier and improved decisions (i.e. reaping the economic benefits of standards);

• lower risk, especially of incompatibility;

• reduced autonomy; and

• direct ownership, and maintenance, of the architecture.

For the "centre", adopting the architecture implies:

• better ability to evaluate investment proposals;

• ability to leverage sector and all-of-government components;

• improved likelihood that the Government's objectives will be met; and

• a need to ensure ongoing ownership, and maintenance, of the architecture by all agencies.

For service users (people, businesses etc), having agencies implement the architecture means:

• achievement of e-government goals; better service, cheaper, faster; and

• better value for money.