“I have a dream” a man once said. He went on to describe exactly what that dream was. His articulation was so successful that many of those listening heard a call to arms and understood that it was the start …
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 …
In his recent blog, Andrew Dennehy-Neil talked about what digital means for us at DWP as we change the way we work to build digital services with user needs at their heart. DWP is a large and diverse organisation (of …
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 …
