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What makes someone a good digital leader?

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 21 June 2018 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation
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...the Government Digital Service reflect on the role that digital leaders can have in transformation and the qualities a good digital leader should have. Simon Everest - Service owner, Standards...

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Angling to meet user needs at Defra

Posted by: Sally Meecham, Posted on: 21 March 2017 - Categories: Transformation, User research
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...very early stages of development - discovery or alpha. I see it as part of my job to help the teams working on those projects, to give them the freedom...

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Making policy an integral part of digital delivery teams

Posted by: Anais Reding, Posted on: 9 January 2017 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
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...essence, the digital transformation of services relies on making policy an integral part of digital delivery teams and vice versa. This is pretty unique to government. So GDS, along with...

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The GDS mission: support, enable and assure

Posted by: Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 26 October 2016 - Categories: Transformation

...Verify is a live service, and growing fast. We’ve hired and trained more people to deliver digital services right across government. I’m proud to be leading an organisation that has...

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Simpler, clearer, Shetler

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 2 July 2015 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation
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Back in January, the Australian government said it would be setting up a new Digital Transformation Office. That was great news. We were happy to welcome Australia to our international community of governments

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