#Strategies provide #direction, reduce complexity, and make it possible to succeed together. That’s also true for a digitisation strategy. Countries therefore sometimes invest a lot of time and budget into developing one through a shared process. But #strategies have a #planninghorizon of 3-5 years, and in fast-changing times, that reaches its limits.

The #digital #transformation of government wants to change the way administration actually happens. A digitisation strategy can describe this path. But if you look at the #duration sometimes budgeted for this process of creating one, it can happen that the world has already moved on by the time the digitisation strategy has been worked out in #participation formats — not to mention the high costs. So does that mean a digitisation strategy isn’t the right tool for administrations after all?

Sort of! A digitisation strategy will, at the moment, still hit its limits. A strategy for digital transformation, on the other hand, can achieve quite a lot right now. And developing one is neither time-consuming nor expensive. Because there are more and more useful standards for German administration, like #DIN #SPEC #66336, #FIM or #NOOTS, that pave the way for the change process.

But what’s still missing to keep this from becoming an “off-the-shelf strategy” that risks fizzling out? We’ve looked into exactly that question, and concluded that there are also #three #key #questions that still need working out. Just three! Building on that, an #individual and #fitting digitisation strategy for a municipality or city can be developed within a month — with or without participation — leaving enough #budget left over to actually implement the #transformation afterwards.

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