Purpose
Describes how to meet the six minimum standards expected in every digital investment plan
For digital and ICT teams, agency executives, and senior responsible officers involved in DIP development and approval
Provides flexible guidance and optional prompts. Agencies may adapt structure and language to fit their context
What a Digital Investment Plan must include
Agency Overview
Sets out the agency’s strategic context, including its mandate, core functions, operating model and delivery responsibilities. This component should position the agency’s digital direction within its broader purpose, highlighting major drivers such as legislation, reform, or stakeholder expectations.
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Current state
Provides a summary of the agency’s existing digital and ICT environment, including platforms, workforce capability, governance arrangements and known constraints. This section establishes a baseline for future planning and identifies gaps or challenges in capability, funding or systems.
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Planning
Outlines the agency's planned digital initiatives across short, medium, and long-term timeframes. Initiatives should be grouped by themes, outcomes or functional strings where appropriate, and line to strategic and business priorities.
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Digital outlook
Describes the agency's long term digital ambition, including its future service model and transformation goals. This section should outline the strategic intent for digital delivery over the next 5 to 10 years, informed by innovation, reform priorities, user expectations or emerging technologies
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Risks
Summarises the key risks that may affect delivery of the digital investment plan, along with the agency's approach to mitigation. Risks may include strategic, operational or systemic issues such as funding constraints, capability gaps, delivery dependencies or cyber threats.
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Enablers
Identifies the conditions, capabilities and support structures that enable successful delivery of the agency’s digital plan. This includes leadership, workforce capability, technology infrastructure, and governance, partnerships, data maturity, and shared services.
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While all six components must be addressed, agencies have flexibility in how they present their DIP. The format, structure and the level of detail can be adapted to align with internal planning processes or artefacts.
The DIP guidebook is intended to support meaningful strategic planning, not to prescribe a standard template.
Contact
For further information about Digital Investment Plans, please contact:
Long-Term Planning team, Digital Capability Planning
Digital Transformation Agency
planning@dta.gov.au
Downloadable resource
Digital Investment Plan (DIP) Policy
The Digital Investment Plan (DIP) policy outlines requirements for agencies in the development and implementation of their DIPs, establishing a structured framework with minimum standards for future-focused digital investment planning.
Developed under the Data and Digital Government Strategy (the Strategy), the DIP policy aims to improve alignment across government, uplift planning maturity and support whole-of-government visibility into digital priorities and capabilities.
Note: it is supported by a detailed guidebook, which provides practical advice for agencies on how to meet policy requirements.
Applicability
Note the policy is in effect from: 1 July 2025
This policy applies to
Non- Corporate Commonwealth entities (NCE’s )
This policy applies to
Non- Corporate Commonwealth entities (NCE’s )
This policy does not apply to
National Intelligence Community (NIC) Agencies
This policy does not apply to
National Intelligence Community (NIC) Agencies