Good culture evolves from the bottom up
A week or so ago, I was invited to speak at the ND16 Digital Leaders event, on the subject "Culture, behaviour and transformation". Here's what I said on the day. I’m pretty sure many of you have seen...
View ArticleHearts on our sleeves and rainbows on our windows
We’ve been talking a lot about diversity at GDS in recent months. I recently announced our commitment to only taking part in conferences that are gender diverse and we’ve written about the work of our...
View ArticleWhat GDS is for
Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Public Sector Show. It re-visits some of the things I spoke about recently, but ties them together with some new thoughts about the future of GDS and the role we play...
View ArticleDelivery Operations: Using GDS data to make better decisions
Although we’ve been around for quite some time, chances are you haven’t heard of the Delivery Operations (Del Ops) team at GDS. And if you have, you probably don’t have a clear idea of what we do. We...
View ArticleGuest post: Two days at GDS – an Australian perspective
Consumer Affairs Victoria is a business unit of the Department of Justice and Regulation, in the Victorian state government. Its purpose is to help Victorian businesses and consumers be responsible and...
View ArticleTaking service design to Parliament
We spoke recently at a roundtable in Parliament, organised by the All Parliamentary Group for Design and Innovation (APDIG). At the session, ‘Designing the next generation of government services’, we...
View ArticleInspiring the next generation of digital civil servants
Earlier this month we welcomed a group of GCSE and A-Level computing students into GDS from north London comprehensive school Fortismere. This was part of the Tech Partnership’s Tech Week 2016 – a...
View ArticleFrom John Manzoni: Changes at GDS
This blog post was originally published on the Civil Service blog. Today we’re sad to say goodbye and thank you to Stephen Foreshew-Cain, Executive Director of GDS. Stephen is leaving GDS after 2...
View ArticleKevin says hello
Hello, I'm delighted to be the new head of GDS. This post is mainly just to introduce myself and say how excited I am about joining the team. Only this week, it was announced that the UK is now ranked...
View ArticleDesigning the Scottish government’s service standard assessments
I’m Katy. I’m currently working in the Digital Public Services and Business Transformation Division as part of the Scottish government’s Graduate Development Programme. Over the past 4 months, I’ve...
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