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Methods in our madness
Back in the summer of 2014 I struggled through the procurement process and after one aborted attempt to use the original ‘Digital Services Framework’ ended up letting a contract via ‘GCloud’. What I was looking for was a small, multidisciplinary team that we could ‘in-source’ for a few weeks to build an Alpha prototype for…
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Head of Innovation
I was reading this interview with John Pullinger this afternoon. John is the National Statistician and as such the boss of my bosses, bosses, boss. I thought it did a good job at getting across how seriously the organisation is taking our ‘digital transformation’ but also how much there is to do and the scale…
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The Hard Thing About the Hard Thing About Hard Things
I’ve just finished ‘The Hard Thing About Hard Things’ by Ben Horowitz. Now Horowitz has had an amazing career first as a startup founder and CEO and probably more prominently as a venture capitalist with his long term business associate Marc Andreessen. They have been early investors in Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Pinterest, and Twitter amongst…
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Top ten #jukesiejobs 31/01/16
January is often an interesting time for interesting jobs to get advertised and this year that has certainly been the case in my little corner of the digital world. The CPS job is a real doozy and the Dyson one is a bit of a wild card but intriguing. Have at them. Director of Digital…
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The Resilience of the Bold
This week Janet wrote a wonderful blogpost that struck a nerve far and wide (at least in my corner of Twitter!) The post was a follow up to the session she ran at #ukgc16 and was on the topic of boldness and in particular whether that was a missing (explicit) value for the Civil Service.…
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