As ever, there is a lot happening this week. On top of work stuff I am fitting in an evening with Kacey Musgraves and attending Interesting 2024. Not sure which of these I am most excited about.
What Ive been up to
1. We held our kick off workshop with the Deloitte team reviewing our digital future operating model. It was a good session covering a lot of ground but there’s a lot more to do so this will be a real area of focus over the coming weeks both for me and the leadership team.
2. We’ve continued to iterate our resource planning and reporting model, getting to grips with PowerBI to better interrogate the data so it’s more meaningful for us when prioritising new work.
3. I attended a round table discussion organised by Government Transformation Magazine on public trust in digital services. Lots of discussion about what might happen next post-this administration.
4. We (me and the rest of the digital leadership team) have been drafting out individual and collective objectives for the coming year. Good to see the flow from our strategic objectives into the leadership team and into individual. The line of sight is encouraging.
What Im doing next
1. We’ve got our monthly review of performance measures and management information this week to keep us to plan.
2. We’re continuing to quantify (ie actually put numbers to our hypotheses) our future live service support model which will require us procuring some capabilities from the market to supplement our in-house teams. We’re having good engagement with the Evolve team to test our estimates with theirs.
3. I’m attending a cross-gov product leaders community meetup, the first for a very long time that I’ve been to. Looking forward to comparing notes with colleague across the public sector.
4. I’m a trustee of NASEN, the National Association for Special Educational Needs. We’ve got our quarter strategy and people committee meeting on Friday so a chance to context shift and provide support to such a vital organisation.