Annual Report 2016-17

Overall strong performance in all business areas has resulted in the target being exceeded for the 2016-17 reporting period.

Detailed key performance indicators information

The outcome based performance measurement framework measures progress towards delivering strategic outcomes. The department’s full suite of KPIs is monitored by the Corporate Executive Leadership team to identify any performance areas where improvement is needed to deliver strategic outcomes.

The department’s Performance Management Framework is discussed here and highlights the inter relationship of the Strategic Plan to the Outcomes Based Management (OBM) Reporting Framework. The overarching departmental outcome is to contribute to making WA the destination of choice for responsible resources exploration, development and operations.

This year, a new and revised suite of KPIs is being reported under the OBM. The KPIs demonstrate how the department contributes to government goals and are instrumental in measuring the department’s performance progress.

The department used the opportunity of developing the new KPIs to undergo an extensive administrative review program. This resulted in improved consistency in metrics, definitions and methodologies involved in reporting the composite performance measures across multiple business activities contributing to individual KPI measures.

Significant changes have been made to how source data is collated. Administrative improvements include reducing reliance on manual data manipulation and moving to systems generated reports used in calculating the new suite of KPIs.

Targets were set for the new suite of KPIs ahead of conducting extensive administrative reviews to establish methodologies for calculating reported KPIs. Instances are noted where improved methodologies have adjusted results reported. This is to be expected within the first year of establishing a new suite of KPIs for the department.

Similarly, as this is the first year of reporting no comparable data is available. However detailed explanations are given and outline the new suite of KPIs progress, trends and patterns in performance will be analysed and discussed in future reporting periods.

Keys

kpi-target-exceeded Target exceeded
kpi-target-met Target met
kpi-target-not-met Target not met

Section highlights

The department used the opportunity of developing the new KPIs to undergo an extensive administrative review program. This resulted in improved consistency in metrics, definitions and methodologies involved in reporting the composite performance measures across multiple business activities contributing to individual KPI measures.