Communities of people inspiring each other
...the somewhat grand title of ‘Product and Service Management Community Lead’. I think it’s a bit of a misnomer, though. For a start, there are plenty of product-minded people across...
People and skills
Where we’re at, and where we’re going
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and skills, Transformation
...and Alison and others from FCO to get this register built, and built to the right standard. The register platform is a shared resource for government, and the FCO team...
Digital principles for a better GDS
We’re aiming to bring together how we apply a digital way of thinking and our own design principles to make GDS a better place to work.
GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
...Too often, the speakers on stage at those events are mostly, sometimes even entirely, male. That has to change. Taking action Today is International Women's Day, and I'm committing, in...
Notes from a Swedish explorer
...Konsument; a web service that gives guidance to consumers in need of help. Today Lars talks about his experience of job shadowing user researchers here at GDS. After almost two...
Professions and boldness
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
...increasingly becoming everyone in government’s responsibility. Everyone needs to be able to fix things that aren’t working and use their skills and knowledge to find ways to make services better....
I became a civil servant by accident
Mark Branigan, a User Researcher for the Digital Marketplace, shares his experience of the Digital and Technology Fast Stream in the Civil Service.
Civil servants are users too
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service and Mayank Prakash, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, People and skills
...individuals from DWP, CSL and GDS, and working from both DWP and GDS offices. This is great news. It’s exactly the kind of thing we mean when we talk about...
Thanks Mike
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
It’s Mike Bracken’s last day today, and on behalf of everyone at GDS I want to say this: thank you, Mike. Government, and government services, have changed beyond all recognition...
Learning and doing together
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and skills, Transformation
...in action. Kevin Cunnington, DWP’s digital Director General for Transformation, founded the Digital Academy in February 2014 to build digital skills across the DWP workforce. I sat on the panel...
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