Principle 3: enterprise first Departments will follow common standards, approaches and direction, and use existing enterprise assets, such as processes, data, contracts and solutions, as accelerators where: • information is created once, reused numerous times, and managed GC-wide as a single-aligned asset that is consistent, standardized and interoperable • solutions support the use of open standards, are scalable and can be rapidly deployed • cost-effective and efficient business solutions facilitate information and data integration, reuse, management, sharing and analytics • common business needs are addressed through enterprise or shared solutions, and departments stop investing in departmental legacy systems and refocus efforts, resources and funds on becoming ready to adopt an enterprise or shared solution and on accelerating its implementation • efforts across the GC are more coherent, integrated, secure and effective