Cabinet:

1.    Approved the release of additional capital funding of £6.3 million in Year 1, as  part  the  2021/22 Budget Medium  Term  Financial  Strategy, to resolve urgent technical needs and begin to prioritise and deliver further enabling projects for the support of ongoing transformational and enabling Digital programmes of work; and 

2.    Approved the direction of travel set out in the Digital Portfolio Business Case, at Appendix A of the report, to allow the development ofan extensive infrastructure renewal programme and the development of the Digital Portfolio for the benefit of stable, secure and enabling technologies to be realised throughout the borough, realising positive step change for corporate functions, as well as residents and businesses in the community.direction of travel as set out in this Digital Portfolio Business Case, to allow the development ofan extensive infrastructure renewal programme and the further development of the Digital Portfolio for the benefit of stable, secure and enabling technologies to be realised throughout the borough of Havering, realising a significant and positive step change for corporate functions, as well as residents and businesses in the community.

Maxine Brown, Digital Portfolio Director, presented the report to Cabinet detailing the delivery of this project.

The Digital Portfolio’s objectives are to:

·       Stabilise and rationalise Havering’s current technology ecosystem

·       Create the various enabling digital and data capabilities (people, skills, technology, data, and processes) for the organisation to deliver its corporate  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6