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About the GDS Women’s group
We’ve been running a Women’s group at GDS for a year now. I wanted to share why we do that, what the group has done so far, and what we plan to do next. It’s not just for women The Women’s group is for...
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Storytelling through blogging: everyone has a part to play
I’m Amy, a creative writer at GDS. My job is to explain to people inside and outside government what we do here at GDS and, specifically, what we’re doing on the Digital Marketplace team. One of the...
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A new road: my first month at GDS
What is a farm girl from California doing at GDS? Well, apparently, quite a lot. At the end of my first month on the job as a product manager, I wanted to share a few observations from a newcomer’s...
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Good culture evolves from the bottom up
A week or so ago, I was invited to speak at the ND16 Digital Leaders event, on the subject "Culture, behaviour and transformation". Here's what I said on the day. I’m pretty sure many of you have seen...
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Hearts on our sleeves and rainbows on our windows
We’ve been talking a lot about diversity at GDS in recent months. I recently announced our commitment to only taking part in conferences that are gender diverse and we’ve written about the work of our...
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What GDS is for
Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Public Sector Show. It re-visits some of the things I spoke about recently, but ties them together with some new thoughts about the future of GDS and the role we play...
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Delivery Operations: Using GDS data to make better decisions
Although we’ve been around for quite some time, chances are you haven’t heard of the Delivery Operations (Del Ops) team at GDS. And if you have, you probably don’t have a clear idea of what we do. We...
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Guest post: Two days at GDS – an Australian perspective
Consumer Affairs Victoria is a business unit of the Department of Justice and Regulation, in the Victorian state government. Its purpose is to help Victorian businesses and consumers be responsible and...
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Taking service design to Parliament
We spoke recently at a roundtable in Parliament, organised by the All Parliamentary Group for Design and Innovation (APDIG). At the session, ‘Designing the next generation of government services’, we...
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Earlier this month we welcomed a group of GCSE and A-Level computing students into GDS from north London comprehensive school Fortismere. This was part of the Tech Partnership’s Tech Week 2016 – a...
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From John Manzoni: Changes at GDS
This blog post was originally published on the Civil Service blog. Today we’re sad to say goodbye and thank you to Stephen Foreshew-Cain, Executive Director of GDS. Stephen is leaving GDS after 2...
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Kevin says hello
Hello, I'm delighted to be the new head of GDS. This post is mainly just to introduce myself and say how excited I am about joining the team. Only this week, it was announced that the UK is now ranked...
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Designing the Scottish government’s service standard assessments
I’m Katy. I’m currently working in the Digital Public Services and Business Transformation Division as part of the Scottish government’s Graduate Development Programme. Over the past 4 months, I’ve...
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What service managers are thinking about
Members of the cross-government service manager community recently got together in Bristol to compare notes and swap stories. We wanted a chance to get to know each other better, to learn from each...
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Making digital services better by engaging a diverse range of suppliers
At GDS, we believe that local and central government and the wider public sector will provide better digital services for the taxpayer if they have access to a diverse group of suppliers. By diverse,...
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Introducing the GDS International team
The GDS International Team is now 4 months old and we thought it was about time to introduce ourselves. International collaboration plays a large part in what GDS does, from influencing global...
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Using mob programming to solve a problem
A lot of the time here at GDS, we think the best way to solve something tricky is to share the problem. Often, it’s not a case of ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’, it’s a chance for us to get as many...
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Unconference: setting our own agenda for the latest all-staff meeting
At GDS, we hold quarterly all-staff meetings to share what we’ve achieved and talk about what we’ll be doing next. Each all-staff typically has 6 to 8 sessions across 2 hours, including a look at how...
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What’s new with the Service Manual?
It’s been a few months since we last posted here about the Service Manual, the best place to find guidance and tools for government service teams. Our biggest news since then is that the Service Manual...
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Welcoming our new minister
We were delighted to welcome our new minister, Ben Gummer, to the GDS office in Holborn yesterday, when he made a few important announcements: GDS is taking over the Digital Academy programme, and...
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