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An agile intranet

Posted by: Chris Fleming, Posted on: 22 February 2016 - Categories: Content, Services and products, User research
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We designed our intranet to be continuously improved, and over recent weeks have been doing just that. Since the intranet’s launch last year we have gathered data and done extensive research to deepen our insights into our users’ behaviour. This is enabling …

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How to do user research on a shoestring

Posted by: Chris Fleming, Posted on: 26 November 2015 - Categories: Services and products, User research
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User research is the bedrock of digital transformation, and without it we have no hope of developing great products and services. Ideally your team has a dedicated user researcher, you can access laboratory facilities when you want, and you have …

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Continually improving our intranet

Posted by: Chris Fleming, Posted on: 2 November 2015 - Categories: Services and products
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No digital product is ever perfect or finished. Even a site that is 90% cheaper than its predecessor, and boasts a user satisfaction reaching post-launch heights of 80%. My challenge as the new product manager for the Department of Health’s …

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Intranet: Testing, testing and more testing

Posted by: Sarah Wood, Posted on: 5 November 2014 - Categories: Capability, Insight
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As an agile digital team, running an agile intranet project, I always wanted our testing model to reflect the principles of agile.

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How the Department of Health re-focused its intranet

Posted by: Rachael Harrison, Posted on: 24 October 2014 - Categories: Content, Insight, Services and products

Rachael Harrison, Deputy Head of Internal Comms, talks about the journey they took to revolutionise content around the needs of users.  

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Our first internal Service Assessment

Posted by: Kylie Mulholland, Posted on: 10 October 2014 - Categories: Capability, Services and products

...We recruited a friendly contact from another Department, and someone I’d met on my Self Certification training at GDS. One person will be the Lead Assessor. The Service Team -...

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Intranet: lessons learned

Posted by: Jason Caplin, Posted on: 6 October 2014 - Categories: Capability, Services and products, Strategy

One month ago we launched the Department's new intranet, including our new PolicyKit, in a fanfare of public sector savings, staff satisfaction, and another big win for small UK digital...

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DH's new intranet: Not with a bang

Posted by: Jason Caplin, Posted on: 18 September 2014 - Categories: Content, Services and products
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...it replaces. The new intranet will cost around 15% of the running cost of Delphi, DH’s old intranet. But there’s more. At the moment core processes on the intranet –...

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