UK Authority have published my article Rethinking policy making in the digital age. It explores the need for a national digital infrastructure that provides open,
Category: IT strategy
‘Blueshift’ and the evergreen promise of the ‘future’ of work
15 years ago at Microsoft, I proposed a programme called ‘Blueshift’. It was a deliberate provocation, an attempt to move away from rusty soundbites about
remembering government.direct – the first interactive green paper
“Top 5% of all Web sites!” “Networking industry awards!” “Awards for excellence!” No, these accolades aren’t for GOV.UK. They’re for the much earlier 1994 central
payday loans and the missed opportunity?
In our book Digitizing Government: understanding and implementing new digital business models, there’s a table illustrating how often grand announcements have been made around the
The wellsprings of UK digital reform part 2 – separating porcine lip enhancement from transformation
Previously This is the second episode of a mini-series of blogs looking at the origins of the UK government’s digital reform programme since 2010. Part
the inadequate scope of public sector “reform”
In the 1999 book “Reinventing Government”, information is placed at the centre of the government reform model: The rings identify multiple aspects that need to be addressed
the identity / data divide
Proving who someone is online and letting them access their personal data – such as their tax, welfare, pension or medical records – often get
the canary that ceased to be
Yesterday I resigned from the Cabinet Office‘s Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group (PCAG) nearly 6 years after I first became involved, initially as its Chair and more
NAO on ‘Digital Transformation in Government’
Yesterday saw the release of the National Audit Office’s report on ‘Digital Transformation in Government‘. The main conclusion from Amyas Morse, head of the NAO,
Escaping waterfall government and the myth of ‘digital transformation’
Writing with my colleague Cassian Young, in a new article in Computer Weekly we consider why an agile approach to digital programmes will not transform
“re-engineer government, abolish government departments”
Ed Vaizey MP, former minister at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), made the following comments in a recent interview: “I would completely re-engineer government.
dev, DevOps and trusted systems
Software’s coming home Software development and technical architecture design have been taken back in-house over the past 5 years – ending the era when Whitehall departments outsourced almost everything to
