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My newsletter is back
A quick note to say that this weekend I wrote up a newsletter for the first time since late 2014. I scheduled it to be published earlier today. If you’d like to see what was in it, you can read…
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An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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Anti-patterns of behaviour in big organisations
Michael Coté has written an excellent post describing seven anti-patterns of behaviour in big organisations. Number six is a particularly egregious crime, in my view: Pay people to ignore them — BigCo’s love hiring new employees, paying them well, and then rarely listening…
Worthing Library hack
Very briefly, West Sussex County Council and FutureGov are hacking the library in Worthing next month. I’ve written a bit about it on the Adur and Worthing Councils digital blog, in case you’re interested.
How much does your technology define what you do?
A fairly quick thought this, but one than keeps occurring to me. It feels like a self evident truth that the technology an organisation uses should follow that organisation’s purpose, and not the other way around, but I wonder how…
Interesting publications on design, technology and change for ‘good’
I’m pulling together a list of interesting, thought-provoking reading on how design, technology and change (the three things that, for me, define ‘digital’) can help organisations that work in the community, voluntary, charity, non-profit, social enterprise type space. Is there…
Our strategy for digital transformation
I recently gave a brief talk on our digital strategy at Adur and Worthing. Here are the (rather dull) slides, in case they are useful. Important to note that only one of the five key themes are anything to do with…
Rehosting podcasts
Last year I recorded a bunch of podcasts that people seemed to enjoy. They were hosted on a service that needed paying for, and when I stopped paying, they dropped off the internet! Oh no! So, have rehosted them on…
Eleven years a blogger
According to the archive on this site, I’ve been writing this blog for eleven years today – since September 2004. This is the 2,646th post and there have been 4,263 comments on them over the years. Lots has changed in…
What I’m talking about when I’m talking about government as a platform
So, a little while ago I posted about government as a platform, and mentioned three main components that matter, particularly to us at Adur and Worthing with our approach. However, I’ve been involved in various conversations where I’ve been confused…
Post-post-bureaucrat
I’ve always rather liked the title of Steph’s blog and how he gives us occasional updates on how his life outside of the government machine is going. His post-bureaucrat life seems to be going really well. I left government as…
The elements of council as a platform
We are fairly aggressively targeting a platform approach to service design and delivery at Adur and Worthing. Summing this up is the vision statement in our (still developing) strategy is: “To use our expertise and platforms to help the people,…
Rethinking performance management
There’s so much I want to blog about at the moment, but pretty much no time to do it. However, here’s a nice little thing we’re working on that might be of interest. Performance management is one of those things…
The war against crap software
The end of my second week at Adur and Worthing and it has been relentless. I’m loving it, but feeling the need to come up for air – you may perhaps have noticed I’ve been quiet on this blog and…
Do you need a digital strategy? Yes, no, well…maybe
Interestingly, two related posts from two local government CIO types pop up in my feed reader within a few days of each other. Firstly, Steve Halliday points to the Solihull digital strategy. Then Rich Copley says we really shouldn’t be…
Coming home to #localgov: I’m joining Adur and Worthing
I’m back, BACK, BAAAAAAAAAAACK! Am super-pleased to be able to write that I’m joining Adur and Worthing Councils in April as Head of Digital and Design. It’s a great time to be joining a great organisation, with fresh people in…
Good product management, according to Roo Reynolds
Nice simple set of slides.
The Linx 7 tablet – so bad, it’s good
So, as a bit of research and development, I bought a Linx 7 tablet the other day. It was pointed out to me by my pal Paul Webster, who thought it had some intruiging digital inclusion possibilities. First up, the…
Better Elevation – great design video series
Better Elevation is a great series of videos about design, which is well worth taking in if you get the chance. [youtube ]
Barcamp Non-Profits 2015
Barcamp Non-Profits is running on April 8th in London. You can grab a ticket here, and do so if you can – it’s a great event and deserves your support. Props to Laila Takeh for organising.
Making British Government easier to learn
My friend and colleague Jason Caplin pointed out today that the LSE have open up the lectures for their undergraduate course on British government and how it all works. It’s a fantastic resource, and great that they have shared this…