The vision and mission guide the team’s purpose, goals, and how they will be achieved.
Steps:
Define the Purpose:
Why does the team exist, and what value does it deliver?
Align with organizational goals like the Digital Plan or Code of Practice.
Identify Core Values:
Examples: Innovation, collaboration, user-centered design.
Draft the Vision Statement:
Vision reflects the long-term aspiration.
Template: “Our team strives to [goal] by [approach] to deliver [impact].”
Example: “We create user-centered digital services that exceed client expectations.”
Draft the Mission Statement:
Mission focuses on how the vision will be achieved.
Template: “Our mission is to [specific action or process] to [deliver value or achieve goals] in [a specific way].”
Example: “Our mission is to collaborate across teams, leveraging innovative tools and user feedback, to deliver digital solutions that drive measurable client outcomes.”
Get Consensus:
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This team focuses on development of pilot MVPs, launching open betas, scaling for enterprise use and ongoing refinement of existing capabilities.
We will:
Adopt government identity services (BCSC)
CHEFS should embed privacy and security by design
CHEFS should be inclusive, accessible, modern and consistent with other government services
CHEFS should be reliable, responsive and adaptable
Sustainably enhance capabilities
Make sure new change shouldn’t break any existing functionalities
Our Core Values are:
Reliability, sustainability, positive collaboration, user-centered design, agile, Maintaining Functional Integrity, Security (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)
Our Vision/Mission Statement is:
Our team strives to sustainably enhance CHEFS' capabilities through the release of pilots, betas and enterprise-class features to deliver value to users -- to become the trusted platform for data collection and help the users achieve their goals