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Applying digital to everything
This is a great talk from Janet Hughes, which I found via Stefan’s Strategic Reading blog.
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Digital dreaming in a virtual yurt
Last Wednesday, my chum Nick Hill and I ran a rather silly virtual event – the ‘digital dream yurt’. It’s an informal get together where people involve in digital and change in public service can get together on a Zoom…
Links of note 27/1/20
I find this stuff, so you don’t have to etc etc Keep, Fix, Enhance, Swap, Replace: Five options for public service reform – Eddie Copeland Of course, everyone knows that in the real world, options are limited by time, money…
Links of note 13/1/20
As mentioned in this post, I have started to find some time to read a bit more, and to bookmark useful stuff. Here’s what I have found in recent days (if I am honest, less than I would have expected…
A year in review, and looking forwards
A short reflection on the year, and some thoughts on what I need to be doing better in this new year (and decade!). The last year has been pretty good, I think. It’s certainly gone by quickly. Work has been…
Weeknote 6/12/19
I’ve not posted one of these for three weeks, which perhaps is something I should apologise for – although I am hardly inundated with demands for one. The bonus is that in covering three weeks in one note, I actually…
Weeknote 15/11/19
Reflections Ah, LocalGovCamp. It went well, I think, despite (perhaps because of) the fact that I missed the social bit the night before due to a spot of, ah, gastric issues. This meant I turned up fresh as a daisy…
Weeknote 8/11/19
I may publish these on different days, but will always title them as the Friday of the week they cover. Reflections It’s LocalGovCamp this week, 10 years after the first. A rather different event than that one – it’s a…
Weeknote 1/11/19
Inspired by Annie, here goes. Format open to change as things progress. Reflections Mood has been a little low this week. Am getting over a cold – nothing lethal – which has left me a bit tired and meh. In…
Rebooting working out loud
I’m three months into my new job and that seems a good time to reflect on how things are going. I’ll save the meat of that for another post, because this one is about how I am working within my…
LINK: “Coding for low-code”
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LINK: “What’s happening with the service standard?”
We first talked about updating the service standard around a year ago. Since then, we’ve talked to hundreds of people in central and local government. It’s still a work in progress, but we think we’re getting close to a final…
LINK: “Salesforce adds low-code tools so everyone can automate their CRM workflow”
Probably the most important aspect of the new tools announced today is that they are based on the Lightning Design System, and so form part of the entire landscape of tools used to build Salesforce CRM applications. In earlier generations…
LINK: “People are not resources”
Resource. If you stop and think about it, it’s a terrible way to speak about people. A resource is something you take and use. Applied to people, it carries dismissive and devaluing undertones. Original:
LINK: “Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.”
Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool. Original:
LINK: “The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995”
…the world’s oldest blockchain predates Bitcoin by 13 years and it’s been hiding in plain sight, printed weekly in the classified section of one of the world’s most widely circulated newspapers: The New York Times. Original:
LINK: “How to make conscious decisions about digital transformation”
…a set of questions to help get to the why, as well as the what, of digital transformation. Original:
LINK: “The Importance of Product Management in Government”
…the approach taken to build and deliver digital products needs to evolve to take advantage of modern software development methods including agile iterative development, human centered design, and continuous delivery. Despite fancy design labs and alleged “digital transformation” capabilities, most…
LINK: “Tesla, software and disruption”
When Nokia people looked at the first iPhone, they saw a not-great phone with some cool features that they were going to build too, being produced at a small fraction of the volumes they were selling. They shrugged. “No 3G,…
LINK: “Apple, Sui Generis”
Wall Street still doesn’t trust Apple’s future. The company is seen as an anomaly, it shuns accepted ways of doing business and defies categorization. Perhaps the categories are wrong. Original: