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Pro-active social insight

Posted by: Philippa Peasland, Posted on: 11 March 2016 - Categories: Engagement, Insight, Strategy
Fresh Perspective on social insight

I joined the Civil Service a few months ago and one of the things both my parting and joining managers advised me to do was make the most of a particularly valuable time-limited offer: the fresh perspective. So I took …

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Doing the right things first

Posted by: Sian Cooke, Posted on: 17 November 2015 - Categories: Strategy

My first job when I turned up in the DH Digital team was to review how we decide what to do next. I’m working in the strategy team, which means that alongside the work I do on raising capability within …

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To Beta and Beyond: what launching our digital passport has taught us

Posted by: Jenny Cearns, Posted on: 11 June 2015 - Categories: Capability, Engagement, Insight, Strategy

Last year an Annual Skills Survey here in DH concluded that about 20% of our staff considered themselves below ‘basic capability’ at digital stuff (with basic being defined as Level 7 on the Government Digital Strategy’s scale of inclusion). So …

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A checklist for discovery – a basic guide of what to include

Posted by: Rebecca Handley, Posted on: 28 May 2014 - Categories: Services and products

...the case. You should be able to explain both for the development phase and for the service after it has launched: -The operating model – the main processes and procedures...

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Action! Digital film-making through the lens of the policymaking cycle

Posted by: Daniel O'Byrne, Posted on: 16 August 2013 - Categories: Content

...Deliver film produced a final edit uploaded the film to YouTube and embedded on the beta tool promoted the film on the DH intranet wrote this blog (my first!) will...

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What does the DH digital strategy mean for policymaking?

Posted by: Susy Wootton, Posted on: 11 June 2013 - Categories: Policymaking, Strategy

The Department of Health’s digital strategy was published in December 2012. The strategy describes how staff will develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to make use of digital techniques to help develop better policy. The strategy commits the department to …

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