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• This is the third (3) assessment task you must successfully complete to be deemed
competent in this unit of competency.
• This assessment task requires you to complete a project.
• You are required to review and develop and distribute recommendations relating to the digital
strategy in this assessment task.
• You will receive your feedback within one (1) week, and you will be notified by your
trainer/assessor when results are available.
• You must attempt all activities of the project for your trainer/assessor to assess your
competency in this assessment task.
Applicable conditions:
• This project is untimed and is conducted as an open book assessment (this means you are
able to refer to your textbook).
• You must read and respond to all the criteria of the project.
• You may handwrite/use computers to answer the criteria of the project.
• You must complete the task independently.
• No marks or grades are allocated for this assessment task. The outcome of the task will be
Satisfactory or Not Satisfactory.
• As you complete this assessment task, you are predominately demonstrating your practical
skills, techniques and knowledge to your trainer/assessor.
• The trainer/assessor may ask you relevant questions on this assessment task to ensure that
this is your own work.
• Where a student’s answers are deemed not satisfactory after the first attempt, a
resubmission attempt will be allowed.
• The student may speak to their trainer/assessor if they have any difficulty in completing this
task and require reasonable adjustments.
• For more information, please refer to the Training Organisation’s Student Handbook.
Location:
☐ a classroom
☒ learning management system (i.e. Moodle),
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☐ workplace,
☐ or an independent learning environment.
• Your trainer/Assessor will provide further student information regarding the location for
completing this assessment task.
The purpose of this assessment task is to assess the student’s knowledge and skills essential to
review and develop and distribute recommendations relating to the digital strategy in a range of
contexts and industry settings.
• Skill to obtain and translate information about the organisation’s digital strategy policies,
processes, and objectives and develop a review methodology.
• Skill to prepare a review plan outlining the established review criteria, organisational
objectives, and information to be gathered and gain approval from the relevant stakeholders.
• Skill to obtain pertinent information in accordance with the review strategy.
• Skill to organise, interpret and evaluate information gathered against established review
criteria following the review plan.
• Skill to discuss issues related to information interpretation and address them appropriately
in consultation with relevant stakeholders and organise interpreted review information for
analysis.
• Skill to analyse review information in accordance with the review plan, and then review and
discuss the analysis’s outcomes and findings with relevant stakeholders.
• Skill to develop and discuss preliminary findings and any issues that have been identified
with relevant stakeholders.
• Skill to obtain any additional information needed to clarify aspects of the findings and issues
and prepare recommendations for improving digital strategy.
• Skill to draft report of the digital strategy review’s outcomes, findings, and recommendations
in accordance with the review plan and distribute the report to the stakeholders.
• Skill to edit the report based on the feedback obtained and proofread the report.
• Skill to present the final report and obtain approval from authorised stakeholders and
distribute the final report to them.
Task instructions
• This assessment task aims to assess the students’ skills essential to complete a set of
activities to review and develop and distribute recommendations relating to the digital
strategy.
• The student will take on the role of a Digital Strategy Manager in the workplace.
• The trainer/assessor will take on the Supervisor’s role or assign a Supervisor to each student.
• The trainer/assessor will further assign the role of an Operations Manager to a staff member.
• The Supervisor and the Operations Manager will be stakeholders of the project.
• The student must use the templates provided to document their responses.
• The student must follow the word limits specified in the templates.
• The trainer/assessor must assess the student using the performance checklist provided.
In this assessment task, you will be required to demonstrate your skills and knowledge to review and
develop and distribute recommendations relating to the digital strategy in a workplace setting or a
simulated environment set up by your training organisation. This includes:
Assessment environment
This assessment task must take place under the following conditions:
This assessment task must take place in any one of the following physical conditions:
For simulated environment, the training organisation must provide the student with the
following documents and resources:
• Relevant standards, laws, regulations, industry and organisational codes and standards
o Computers
o Internet
o MS Word
o Printer
Note: The student can use their own workplace setting. The trainer/assessor will assess the
workplace based on the assessment criteria mentioned below and will provide approval if the
workplace meets the requirements.
For the workplace, the student must submit the following documents with the complete
templates given in the assessment activities:
Assessment criteria:
Your trainer/assessor will ensure that the simulated environment meets the following assessment
criteria.
The workplace setting or the simulated workplace must provide the student with
access to the following:
o Computers
o Internet
o MS Word
o Printer
You are working as an Operations Manager in your workplace. Your Supervisor wants you to review and
develop and distribute recommendations relating to the digital strategy of the workplace. This includes:
• Analysing the information that has been gathered during the review of the digital strategy.
The training organisation’s Digital Strategic Vision and Strategy for 2020-2023 is outlined in this paper.
It explains how Information Services can support the training organisation’s operational operations
while facilitating transformation and growth through technological, digital, information, and application
strategies.
It recognises COVID’s fundamental shift and the need to build solutions that enable increased mobility
in a stable, long-term, and agile manner. Increasing the use of Cloud and managed services, remote
solutions and standardised platforms and centralising procurement and support services are only a few
examples.
All of this necessitates a new operating model and solution set and a cultural change that emphasises
collaborations, teamwork, and mutual results across the organisation.
It builds on the ‘empowering people through digital’ values and goals outlined in the Digital Strategy
and gives staff and students access to enabling technologies and digital resources through a variety of
foundation infrastructure and end-user channels, both locally, in the Cloud, and on mobile devices.
Our goal is to provide our users with applications and infrastructure that are reliable, scalable, resilient,
and performant. Information can be accessed at the right time, in the right environment, on the right
computer, in context, and in a safe manner, thanks to technology services.
This vision will be achieved by utilising current methods, systems, technology, processes, and
relationships and incorporating best practices and using new and evolving solutions. Some would
necessitate expenditure while existing funds will be redirected where appropriate.
Through the eyes of a staff member, a newly formed Digital Services will be highly visible, engaged,
supportive, responsive, and always professional in our approach. Our work will be based on best
practices in service management, process, governance, and policy, and our service reporting will be
improved.
The digital journey for the student must be seamless, with greater emphasis and focus placed on their
Digital wants, needs, and requirements. This is our goal.
The re-branding of the Information Services Division (ISD) to Digital Services and the development of
a new working model, and the re-definition of the service offering will be critical.
We work in a spirit of partnership and collaboration to develop a more formalised approach to service
delivery, which may be disruptive in the early stages. We will develop and propose a centralised
approach to technology asset standardisation and procurement and a review of the funding model
required to enable this Digital Strategy.
We must develop and adapt in order to enable transformation and growth, and while this strategy does
not call for additional funding, it may be necessary as we develop our delivery plans.
Examine existing technology and application solution sets, such as service offerings, organisational
structure, infrastructure, digital, technical, information and application estate, and cybersecurity
controls and plans.
Some technology sets in use are current, but others are old and need to be upgraded or replaced; this
is referred to as “technical debt,” and it will be reviewed as well.
Historically, solutions have been procured in a decentralised manner, making standardisation difficult
to accomplish, and ISD has little if any, regulation or influence in these environments. This is a security
risk that needs to be tackled.
Technical Cyber Security measures are in place, but they are not centrally controlled or delivered in a
consistent manner. This is a major risk that, if left unattended, could result in system failure, data loss,
financial loss, and harm to the training organisation’s reputation. This is something that needs to be
tackled.
• Examine, rationalise, and improve the necessary enabling infrastructure, commodity technology
platforms, and applications to support digital transformation and facilitate new ways of working.
• Create and encourage strategies that can help to standardise and consolidate solution sets.
• Listen to our customers and create programmes that facilitate information delivery at the right
time, in the right place, and on the right computer.
• Instil faith and belief in the work we do and the services we provide. The training organisation
functions will look to Digital Services as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.
• Develop a solid strategy for cybersecurity preparedness and response.
• Examine all existing services and create a well-structured and clear service catalogue, including
details on service criticality, service response, and those services requiring 24x7 service and
support.
• Examine all Enterprise applications and collaborate to create a roadmap for future applications.
The roadmap included in the Digital Strategy outlined a number of goals, deliverables, and outcomes
for each of the strategic themes. Although no timetable was established, delivery phasing was based
on a three-point approach, namely, Now “Baseline,” Soon “Transitional,” and “Future” Strategic.
It is unclear whether, when, or how each item advanced, but Digital Services will review each
deliverable and engage with stakeholders to determine its current and future state. This will be done
in conjunction with the application review, the results of which will be used to inform the future
application strategy and roadmap.
Cybersecurity
To combat the cyber threat, a multi-dimensional approach is required. Investment is required for
assessments, training, accreditation, tolling, and dealing with “technical debt.”
Cyber cannot be viewed as a nice-to-have, but rather as a necessity, and it cannot be limited to the
scope of Digital Services.
A campus review of cyber capability is required, with the results used to develop corrective plans for
priority areas and business cases to mitigate risk. In this regard, Digital Services will strive for Cyber
Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation.
This is an important first step because the training organisation’s vulnerability to simple attacks may
mark it out as a target for more in-depth attention from cybercriminals. Cyber Essentials will give you
confidence that our defences will protect you from the majority of common cyber-attacks simply
because these attacks are looking for targets that do not have the Cyber Essentials technical controls
in place.
As the Higher Education sector becomes a direct target for cybercriminals and high-profile attacks
occur across the sector, it is recommended that training organisations develop both tactical and
strategic plans to mitigate cyber threats.
This will necessitate the use of dedicated, experienced subject matter experts as well as external
assistance. Discussions with sector partners validate the importance of this approach and support the
hiring of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a Senior Security Technical Engineer. This
should be taken into account.
Through consultation, Digital Services will review all applications and develop a roadmap to identify
those that can be tolerated, eliminated, invested in, or migrated, for example, to the Cloud or as part
of a Managed Service. This strategy will also be applied to infrastructure and services.
Assessment is based on a methodology that governs software applications throughout their entire life
cycle in order to support changing business requirements.
As a result of the application review, a detailed application strategy and roadmap will be provided.
A high-level view of the existing tier-1 application estate is provided below, demonstrating that
elements of the 2018 Digital Strategy are being implemented, with some applications already migrated
to the Cloud and delivered as “Software as a Service,” or SaaS.
Banner Student Record System, E5 Financials, and Cognos Business Intelligence are examples of
outliers that require further investigation. These issues must be addressed.
Skype for business is being phased out and will be replaced by Microsoft Teams, which is also available
as a SaaS service.
Service model
The service modelling approach is depicted below and is based on the SIAM model (Service Integration
& Management).
SIAM is widely regarded as a “best practice” approach to delivering technology and digital services. In
the case of Digital Services, this includes a combination of business and digital information technology
solutions that work together to form a single business-facing organisation.
SIAM aims to seamlessly integrate services from multiple sources into a single end-to-end service
offering, which in the context of training organisation includes three elements: customers (staff and
students), the internal Digital Services function, and external parties.
Digital Services and our customers will benefit from an improved portfolio, demand management, and
reporting controls.
Delivery will also require the development of a new set of charters and delivery principles for each
function of Digital Services. These will outline the values, behaviours and approach provided by the
newly formed service model.
Service Offer
Digital Services will act as a Digital Transformation Partner for all training organisation functions,
collaborating and collaborating with staff, students, and sectoral partners to develop solutions that are
fit for purpose, effective, efficient, and ensure value for money.
We will play a key role in the standardisation and integration of infrastructure and technology, the
development of new service models, and the delivery of foundation and transformation services in
collaboration with partners.
Solutions
From 2020 to 2021, there will be a period of stabilisation, followed by a period of optimisation and
transformation from 2021 to 2022.
We will also work toward this plan while continuing to conduct business as usual and assisting in the
delivery of transformation projects. Scheduling, digitisation, and CRM recruitment
Note: While some elements may run concurrently and others may change, Digital Services will develop
a formal time-limited roadmap and requirement specification for delivery.
This Digital Strategy is ambitious and represents the start of a transformational journey in difficult
times, necessitating the development and approval of associated strategies, roadmaps, plans, business
cases, and projects.
Mission
Our goal is to provide our users with applications and infrastructure that are reliable, scalable, resilient,
and performant. Information can be accessed at the right time, in the right environment, on the right
computer, in context, and in a safe manner, thanks to technology services.
Vision
This vision will be achieved by utilising current methods, systems, technology, processes, and
relationships and incorporating best practices and using new and evolving solutions. Some would
necessitate expenditure while existing funds will be redirected where appropriate.
Existing digital practices are outlined in the digital strategy document (2020-2023).
Values
● Reliability
● Quality
● Innovation
● Respect
Our principles
1. Audience-centred – we will use digital channels to better understand our current and potential
audiences, engage them in conversations, and incorporate their feedback into our work. We will be
agile and respond quickly to what our audiences are saying.
2. Innovative – we are innovative in our approach to programming, and we will mirror this in our
approach to digital, adopting new technologies where these align well with our mission.
3. Sustainable – as well as investing in growing, we need to live within our means. Every digital initiative
will be supported by a business case, setting out how it contributes to our mission, the resources
4. Collaborative – we will adopt an open approach to our work, whether that’s partnering with local
creative technology businesses, sharing our insights and digital toolsets with similar arts organisations,
or contributing to open-source initiatives.
5. Accessible – we will ensure our digital initiatives and experiences are designed and delivered in a
way that allows the widest possible audiences to access them, including those with visual, hearing or
other accessibility requirements.
We will know we are successful when the digital strategy is implemented as planned for each stage
and for each yearly plan.
You are working as an Operations Manager in your workplace. As part of your job role, you have the
following responsibilities:
Task responsibilities:
• Obtain and translate information about the organisation’s digital strategy policies, processes, and
objectives and develop a review methodology.
• Prepare a review plan outlining the established review criteria, organisational objectives, and
information to be gathered and gain approval from the relevant stakeholders.
• Organise, interpret, and evaluate information gathered against established review criteria
following the review plan.
• Discuss issues related to information interpretation and address them appropriately in consultation
with relevant stakeholders and organise interpreted review information for analysis.
• Analyse review information in accordance with the review plan, and then review and discuss the
analysis’s outcomes and findings with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and discuss preliminary findings and any issues that have been identified with relevant
stakeholders.
• Obtain any additional information needed to clarify aspects of the findings and issues and prepare
recommendations for improving digital strategy.
• Draft report of the digital strategy review’s outcomes, findings, and recommendations in
accordance with the review plan and distribute the report to the stakeholders.
• Edit the report based on the feedback obtained and proofread the report.
In this assessment task, you will be required to demonstrate your skills and knowledge to review and
develop and distribute recommendations relating to the digital strategy in a workplace setting or a
simulated environment set up by your training organisation. This includes:
The trainer/assessor will supervise and observe the student performing each activity or assign a
supervisor.
Supervisor roles and responsibilities: The Supervisor is the individual who supervises or is in charge
of the organisation. They belong to a higher rank or status. Their job role and responsibilities are:
• Provide you with the required information to complete the assessment activities.
• Provide insights into the digital strategy review process and provide the required approvals.
Operations Manager roles and responsibilities: The Supervisor is the individual who supervises or
is in charge of the organisation. They belong to a higher rank or status. Their job role and responsibilities
are:
• Provide the Digital Strategy Manager with the required approvals for the review plan and digital
strategy review report.
• Participate in consultation activities to address issues identified in the digital strategy review
process.
Note: Each student will be assessed individually for all assessment activities.
Task requirements
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• You will be assessed on your technical knowledge and skills to complete this work placement task.
This activity requires you to create a plan for reviewing the digital strategy.
To do so, you are required to follow the steps given in Checklist 1 and complete the templates associated
with each step.
• Place a tick mark against each step given in the checklist after the student performs/implements
the step.
• Sign off the checklist and ask the student for the submission of templates associated with each
step.
Step 3: Prepare a review plan to analyse and evaluate the existing digital strategy
using Template 3. Include the following information in the review plan: ❑
• Organisational objectives related to the digital strategy.
Step 4: Check the review plan prepared in Step 3 for accuracy of content,
grammar, spelling and punctuation. ❑
Sign-off:
Date:
Review methodology
Description of the review strategy to be used to evaluate digital strategy (150-200 words)
Review plan
This activity requires you to collect review information and analyse the information gathered.
To do so, you are required to follow the steps given in Checklist 2 and complete the templates associated
with each step.
• Place a tick mark against each step given in the checklist after the student performs/implements
the step.
• Sign off the checklist and ask the student for the submission of templates associated with each
step.
Evidence to be submitted:
• Completed Template 4.
Step 3: Discuss two (2) issues interpreting information and address appropriately
in consultation with the Supervisor and Operations Manager. ❑
Document the following information using Template 6.
• What were the key points of discussion, and what were the outcomes?
Step 5: Analyse review information according to the review plan and document
the outcomes using Template 7. ❑
• Analyse the review information gathered in Step 1 - Step 3 against the
review criteria established in the review plan.
o Review criteria
Step 6: Review and discuss the analysis's results and findings with the
stakeholders (Supervisor and Operations Manager). ❑
• Arrange a meeting with the Supervisor and Operations Manager.
Date:
Information sourced
Review criteria
Meeting/Project Name:
1. Meeting Objective
2. Attendees
3. Meeting Agenda
Description Prepared by
Meeting Minutes:
1. Meeting Objective
2. Attendance at Meeting
4. Action Items
Objective:
This activity requires you to determine the review results and findings.
To do so, you are required to follow the steps given in Checklist 3 and complete the templates associated
with each step.
• Place a tick mark against each step given in the checklist after the student performs/implements
the step.
• Sign off the checklist and ask the student for the submission of templates associated with each
step.
Step 1: Obtain any additional information needed to clarify aspects of the findings
and issues. ❑
• Source additional information required to clarify aspects of the findings
and issues identified in Activity 2.
Sign-off:
Date:
What additional information did you source for each issue? Document any two (2).
Two (2) recommendations for actions to improve digital strategy. (200-250 words)
This activity requires you to document and disseminate the review's findings and recommendations.
To do so, you are required to follow the steps given in Checklist 4 and complete the templates associated
with each step.
• Place a tick mark against each step given in the checklist after the student performs/implements
the step.
• Sign off the checklist and ask the student for the submission of templates associated with each
step.
Step 1: Draft report of the digital strategy review's outcomes, findings, and
recommendations in accordance with the review plan prepared in Activity 1. ❑
Prepare the draft report using Template 10 and include the following information:
• Review criteria
Step 5: Present final report and obtain approval from authorised stakeholders
❑
• Arrange a meeting with the Supervisor and Operations Manager.
▪ Review criteria
Sign-off:
Date:
Report of the digital strategy review's outcomes, findings, and recommendations (600-800
words)
Review criteria
Meeting/Project Name:
1. Meeting Objective
2. Attendees
3. Meeting Agenda
Description Prepared by
Meeting Minutes:
1. Meeting Objective
2. Attendance at Meeting
4. Action Items
Objective: