Pro-active 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 …
We do health (come join us)
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 …
How we decide what to do
Last March, at the end of the reporting cycle for our 2013/14 digital strategy, we ran a little exercise to review how it had all gone.
What does the DH digital strategy mean for policymaking?
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 …
A job delivering our digital strategy
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The DH digital strategy
We've just published our digital strategy. It sets out how the Department of Health will give its staff the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to embrace digital in an increasingly digital world. It's been quite a task to produce it and …
A tattoo of your digital strategy
Self-help gurus and sports coaches often recommend identifying your goals and then repeating them out loud, visualising yourself achieving them, sharing them with others, even tattooing them on to your skin. It's advice worth considering when you're planning and talking …
13 measures of success for government digital teams
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Stephen Hale, Posted on:
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Categories:
Capability, Content, Engagement, Services and products, Strategy
I mentioned that I wanted the DH digital communication team to aspire to run the most effective digital communication operation in government. It's a nice ambition, but it's pretty meaningless unless we can find ways to rate our performance. We ran a …
The most effective digital operation in government
I want my team to run the most effective digital communication operation of any government department. I see no reason why we shouldn't. We have the people to do it. We have plenty of experience and expertise between us. And …