Digital by Default

Category: thoughts

  • Monkey first

    This is a real ramble and I’m not sure it makes sense even by my standards but better out than in (my head) I was reading the article about Google X and their ‘moonshots’ in the latest Wired and when I wasn’t rolling my eyes at ‘Astro’ Teller and his roller blades and generally being…

  • The Security Service

    One of the great frustrations of being a supplier to Government – particularly with the amount of time we spend embedded on-site with Government teams – is the security pass situation. Regularly working in locations where you need to be permanently escorted and can’t even go to the loo, let alone a meeting room or…

  • Talkin’ loud, saying something

    “..knowledge only travels when it’s interesting and memorable enough for someone to retell your story.” Sam Villis Not for the first time Sam nails it. I was sorry to miss her session at Govcamp last weekend (I was probably gossiping in the corridor as per..) but she wrote up her workshop in beautiful detail. The…

  • What do you [really] do?

    That is the question isn’t it? My job title is Head of Digital Transformation. Yep I don’t know what that means either. Probably not what you think it does. The reality is my job title should have probably been Head of Beta.ONS for this year – because it has been pretty much all consuming. Where…

  • Balls, bibs and cones

    I was recently accused (in the nicest possible way) of being a ‘digital leader’. This is a kind of catch all senior role/position that has grown in currency in the last year or so, particularly in and around the civil service. Shortly before the GDS exodus Mike Bracken wrote a post about if you ‘Hire…