Posts about how the Department of Work and Pensions is building digital and enhancing the digital skills of its staff.
I LOVE innovation because of all those fantastic things that can really improve our lives. As a traveller, my smartphone brings me internet, email, calendar, photos and best of all face to face contact with my nearest and dearest. These …
Now that DWP has defined what business and digital transformation means for the department, we're fully focused on developing some of the things we need to make it happen. One of the important building blocks is a business design, made …
In my last blog I wrote about Business Transformation in DWP. We are leading a step change in the way that the whole of DWP operates. That means delivering the policy intent and the service citizens expect from government, in …
At the recent Civil Service Live events we had lots of people coming to our stand wanting to find out more about the DWP Digital Academy and how we are building digital capability within DWP. In the spirit of “showing …
It’s a great time to be working at the Department for Work and Pensions. We are changing the way we work to make sure that we build digital services which have users at their heart and in a way that …
Its been a busy few weeks since our last update. Some of us have started on a new project, we've delivered a presentation to a conference of 400 people whilst still continuing on the journey of building our capability. Shortly …
There is no shortage of hype around digital transformation but never has the mantra: ‘innovate or die’ been more true. There are some who see technology and the internet as disruptive, forcing organisations to break with the past and re-engineer …
As part of our continued development, we have been discussing the idea of holding a “hack day” This is hacking in a good way, nothing to do with hacking into the Pentagon! We will have a group of a approximately …
On Wednesday (02/04/14) Adrian and I started the next part of our journey and joined the project at Carers Allowance in Preston. We arrived in time to join in the daily morning stand up. This is a short meeting for …
In January we completed an introductory training course in programming. The trainees - Ian Tidmarsh, Nathalie Harrold, Mike Morris, Adrian Stone, Donna Kirk and Paul Anderson (all from IT Project Directory) - now have an understanding of the fundamentals and …
