Program directory · Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Digital Strategy, Planning, and Oversight
- Department
- Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
- Program code
- BXB03 (TBC)
- Core responsibility
- Administrative Leadership
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Digital Strategy, Planning, and Oversight program supports the achievements of the Government of Canada’s enterprise digital transformation objectives through: enterprise strategic planning; digital investment oversight; and cyber security and digital enablement initiatives and activities.
The program focuses on next generation and foundational technology; enterprise architecture (including enterprise security architecture); IT portfolio management (investments, assets, services); application portfolio management and modernization (addressing technical debt); Enterprise data governance and management; Digital project oversight and project portfolio management; digital tools and ecosystems (Cloud); digital identity; enterprise cyber security risk management, and, cyber security event management.
The program supports advancements in all these focus areas through encouraging collaboration between government institutions; engaging other governments (domestic and international); providing leadership and establishing governance; developing and implementing policy instruments; monitoring and overseeing departmental policy compliance and project management performance; and developing communities through learning and outreach activities.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2017-18. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Strategy, Planning, and Oversight | This program | 2017-18 – 2024-25 | $139M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | Employees (FTEs) 217, against 150 in 2017-18 (+45%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2018-19 | Spending $28.7M, against $21.8M in 2017-18 (+32%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2019-20 | Indicators added: Percentage of websites delivering digital services to citizens securely | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2019-20 | Indicators dropped: % of departments that have fewer than three significant outages impacting key systems in a year; % of information technology systems that are managing cyber risks effectively; % of target strategic actions to the Government of Canada Information Technology Strategic Plan completed; Degree to which departments are satisfied with the health of government's Information Technology, expressed as a percentage; Degree to which departments are satisfied with the strategic direction of Information Technology in the Government of Canada, expressed as a percentage | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2019-20 | Renamed from “Digital Technology and Security Policies and Initiatives” to “Digital Strategy, Planning, and Oversight”. | GC InfoBase program names by year |
| 2020-21 | Spending $18.1M, against $24.9M in 2019-20 (−27%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Employees (FTEs) 237, against 154 in 2021-22 (+54%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Indicators added: Percentage of healthy business applications as recorded in the TBS Application Portfolio Management system | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Spending $28M, against $17.8M in 2021-22 (+57%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Planned employees (FTEs) 104, against 237 in 2022-23 (−56%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Planned spending $17.5M, against $28M in 2022-23 (−37%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | ≥ 40% | 2022 | 38% Legacy systems are taking longer to decommission due to various reasons including, timing of workload migration strategies within departments and prioritization within the departments. | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 100% – 100% | 2019 | 57% Departmental compliance to the HTTPS ITPIN has increased since the last reporting cycle. The websites that are not yet compliant are still using aging or outdated supporting infrastructure (for example, network switches, servers, routers, data centres, infrastructure software and firewalls) that needs to be updated to fully support secure encryption. Departments are starting to implement cloud te… | Not met |
| 2020-21 | 100% – 100% | 2021 | 69% To improve on the 2020–21 result, TBS will work with departments’ designated officials for cybersecurity to make government web sites more secure and to provide tools like the Security Playbook for Information System Solutions and patch management guidance in order to improve the delivery of secure and trusted digital services. | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 100% | 2019 | 94% Cyber risks were managed effectively for 94% of key IT systems in the federal government, which means that, for each system, the responsible department had assessed the risks and had granted the system formal authority to operate. This was up 1 percentage point from the previous year, but did not reach the target of 100%. TBS will work with the departments that are responsible for the remaining 6… | Not met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 65% | 2019 | — Progress against the Government of Canada Strategic Plan for Information Technology 2016-2020, was monitored as part of the development of the Government of Canada Strategic Plan for Information Management and Information Technology 2017-2021, and the Digital Operations Strategy Plan 2018-2022, which came into effect April 2019. Given the annual rolling nature and four-year scope of this strategi… | No result reported |
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | Year-over-year improvement | 2019 | 59% | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 50% | 2019 | 80% The planned methodology was to survey CIOs; however, no CIO survey was conducted in 2018-19. Instead, this question was included in a survey of deputy ministers. | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | — | $21.8M |
| 2018-19 | $18.6M | $28.7M |
| 2019-20 | $21.1M | $24.9M |
| 2020-21 | $15.2M | $18.1M |
| 2021-22 | $15.4M | $17.8M |
| 2022-23 | $19.8M | $28M |
| 2023-24 | $17.5M* | — |
| 2024-25 | $15.1M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | 126 | 150 |
| 2018-19 | 130 | 217 |
| 2019-20 | 116 | 203 |
| 2020-21 | 93 | 179 |
| 2021-22 | 93 | 154 |
| 2022-23 | 118 | 237 |
| 2023-24 | 104* | — |
| 2024-25 | 93* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $18,627,558 | $18,649,252 | $18,649,251 | ||||
| 2019-20 plan | $21,107,979 | $13,965,678 | $14,023,780 | ||||
| 2020-21 plan | $15,249,348 | $15,103,031 | $14,511,696 | ||||
| 2021-22 plan | $15,399,400 | $14,804,048 | $14,804,048 | ||||
| 2022-23 plan | $19,817,234 | $17,524,383 | $15,086,983 | ||||
| Actual | $28,727,633 | $24,949,673 | $18,095,038 | $17,796,394 | $28,026,031 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
