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Why have a digital strategy? To enable, catalyse and inspire

Posted by: Jason Caplin, Posted on: 29 March 2015 - Categories: Capability, Insight, Policymaking, Services and products, Strategy
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...burning rubber Building an intranet sounded like a really irrelevant thing to do. But 9 months of hard graft proved so many things. First, you need a shop window. We...

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Introducing our engagement platform

Posted by: Kylie Mulholland, Posted on: 28 March 2015 - Categories: Content, Engagement, Services and products

...the different sites under a single URL and devolved content ownership to the relevant teams. Sound familiar? The new platform is consistent with the GOV.UK approach as far as possible....

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Thought piece: is it time for post-policy government?

Posted by: Jason Caplin, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Policymaking, Strategy
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..."to allow or even require a different operating model for government." So say two powerhouses of government leadership, Mike Bracken (at GDS) and Paul Maltby (at the Cabinet Office). They're...

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Ebola: the ongoing digital engagement challenge

Posted by: Lucy Denton, Posted on: 26 March 2015 - Categories: Engagement

...the nurses and assisted us in learning how best to tailor our comms. We didn’t rely on Twitter alone – you’re never going to reach all your audiences through only...

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We do health (come join us)

Posted by: Adam Bye, Posted on: 25 March 2015 - Categories: Jobs

Digital delivery has huge potential to transform the health and care system –improving services to patients, supporting new models of care, driving efficiencies that allow more time to be spent on those most in need. The NHS deals with over …

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Meet Kate Swaffer

Posted by: Anna Hepburn, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Engagement, Policymaking

If you haven’t heard of her already, there is a remarkable lady called Kate Swaffer. She is, as she puts it in her twitter biography, an advocate for people with dementia, living well with young onset dementia, a speaker, author, …

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