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The Government Digital Service has released a big list defining the skills needed for transformation. It’s certainly comprehensive. It’s fair to say that it is more a list of skills that people need rather than the details of what goes…
Another nice Ted talk for the collection. Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the…
I’ve started up a new – hopefully weekly – podcast with my friend Robert. If you like long, rambling conversations about not an awful lot, you’re going to love this. Listen to the first episode here: You can subscribe…
Interesting way of describing things from Methods:
There was a debate raging late last week about the needs of digital in local government (again). I wrote up some thoughts to share with everyone – I was feeling somewhat limited by the 140 character confines of Twitter –…
Light posting in these parts recently. I’ve been somewhat distracted by the so-far unsuccessful job hunt. I have had a couple of pieces published elsewhere though. Firstly, a post on Comms 2.0 about mobile: The growth in popularity of messaging…
An occasional effort to link to interesting things I have seen. Not convinced about the format yet – let me know what you think. One of my current obsessions is around mobile messaging apps. This interview with the CEO of…
On Saturday at GovCamp 2015, Mike Bracken announced the enabling strategy, the approach GDS is developing to deliver something they call government as as platform. Here’s the nice, short video that explains it: Now, this is very sensible and it…
I’m really pleased to be helping out my good fried Jude Habib with the Social Media Exchange event, which is coming up early in February. There are still a few places available, so I thought I would let folk…
An occasional effort to link to interesting things I have seen. Not convinced about the format yet – let me know what you think. The digital democracy report was published this morning by the Speaker’s commission on the topic. If you…
Bit navel-gazey this post, but bear with me, and I would love your feedback. So, as mentioned previously, I am looking for a job. The main reason for this is that I want to be able to focus on one…
Last week Facebook At Work was announced, a new way for organisations to make use of Facebook as a way of networking staff. The product will allow employees to join a network which could be connected to their personal…
If you have a few hours to spare, you could do a lot worse than to spend them watching the three episodes that make up Triumph of the Nerds, a 1995 documentary charting the history of the microcomputer industry. From the…
I’m delighted to say we have our first sponsor on board the good ship VirtualGovCamp, and it’s our friends at Jadu, who are promoting their Spacecraft design agency! Our approach to design is well considered and successful. One size fits…
I’ve just finished reading a book about Yahoo! and its current CEO, Marissa Mayer. A fairly slim tome, I got through it in a day on my Kindle. It’s well worth a look for anyone interesting in how technology…
A key role for any CDO in an organisation is looking for, and creating, alignment. The obvious one in the digital sphere is looking for alignment between the organisation’s preferred outcomes, and the needs of the people who use its…
I don’t want to call them resolutions – doing so means failure if they don’t come off. However, there are a few things that I hope will happen in the next twelve months. 1. Focus more on writing (or, creating…
Here are a few of the things I’ve really enjoyed on the internet in the last 12 months. Some new, some not so new. Hope you find something useful in them! Mobile apps Nuzzel – this does a great job…
After a brief hiatus, here’s another post on the idea of the shared chief digital officer. The others are here. So, what does a shared CDO look and sound like? Firstly, perhaps it’s a good idea to say what the…
I’ve just finished a rather excellent book, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson. It takes a wonderfully long term view of digital – starting with Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and ending with Larry and Sergei in more recent times. I…