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:
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New podcast interview on councils and digital transformation
I was interviewed by Vicky Sargent again for her Interesting Times podcast. We talk about digital transformation in local governments, focusing on Adur & Worthing Councils and Hackney Council. You can listen to the podcast, and subscribe to future episodes,…
LINK: “Building the GOV.UK of the future”
We need to prepare for a world where people might not access GOV.UK through their computer or smartphone, but could be using Alexa, Google Assistant or some technology that hasn’t even been created yet. We need to make GOV.UK understandable…
LINK: “What makes someone a good digital leader?”
Doing things better is hard because it presupposes you know what you are doing and why you are doing it. You have to understand and be clear on your goals and your vision, and the outcomes you want your projects,…
LINK: “Bridging the Digital Skills Gap in the Digital Workplace”
Right now, there is growing interest in the role that learning can play in organisational change, but we are starting from a place where learning is seen as separate to the practice of work, and also something different from more…
LINK: “The wellsprings of UK digital reform part 2 – separating porcine lip enhancement from transformation”
Transformation is a world away from simply polishing the way things are currently done (the “lipstick on pigs” approach – the tired web- and form-based service design ethos of the past few decades, stuck Groundhog Day-like inside the broken silos…
LINK: “An open data standard for planning applications?”
We’re working to find out what a digital planning application service would look like if it were “so good, people prefer to use it”. However, one of the early things we learnt was that high quality data is the key…
LINK: “What have we learned from the Service Design Conference (SD in Gov)”
I’ve not heard anyone disagree that this is a good thing. There were many people at the event who were passionate about user centred services and about designing end to end services. Why is user research not given the priority…
LINK: “Delivery-driven Government”
The movement to modernize government technology has been focused on the delivery of government services using modern technology and best practices. But that is only half the solution; now we must also learn to drive policy and operations around delivery…
LINK: “The Ad Hoc Government Digital Services Playbook”
The Ad Hoc Government Digital Services Playbook compiles what we’ve learned from four years of delivering digital services for government clients. Our playbook builds on and extends the Digital Services Playbook by the United States Digital Service. The USDS playbook…