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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 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…
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…
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…
Nice simple set of slides.
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 is a great series of videos about design, which is well worth taking in if you get the chance. [youtube ]
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.
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…
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…