Online training presentations and information: Digital for Leaders: what you really need to know
This lively and interactive session aims to remove the jargon and complexity surrounding digital and technology, providing a solid foundation of knowledge for those in leadership positions to ensure their approach is the right one.
The workshop will focus on the strategic matters of importance when it comes to digital and transformation, giving attendees the confidence to challenge their organisations to make the most of the digital opportunity.
Below you’ll find the presentation and additional information to download from the workshop that you attended on digital for leaders.
Downloads available:
Online Training: Slides Digital for Leaders
Digital leadership reading list
Books
- Good services by Lou Downe – https://good.services/
- The Agile Communications Handbook by Giles Turnbull – https://agilecommshandbook.com/
- Digital Transformation at scale: why the strategy is delivery by various – https://public.digital/publications
Videos
- Digital Government: Not Complicated, Just Hard, Tom Loosemore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBl5rRV8OfU
- The future of local government services, Mark Foden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbbdHJS2t8I
- Applying digital to everything – Janet Hughes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8jgRLej0U
- Martin Jordan: Designing government services that meet user needs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Hsaz57Yl4
- Human-Centered Data Transformation – Kit Collingwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I49wV6IsDAs
- Situation Normal, Everything Must Change – Simon Wardley
https://youtu.be/Ty6pOVEc3bA
Blog posts and articles
- There is no ‘digital service design’ | by Ben Holliday | Medium
- The Government IT Self-Harm Playbook | by Dan Sheldon
- The principles of good service design — Lou Downe
- Where do service designers fit within an organisation? – Home Office Digital, Data and Technology
- Internet-era ways of working — Public Digital
- Delivering digital service: this much I have learned – Matt Edgar
- Funding product teams, not projects – Defra digital
- Blogging and working in the open – Steve Messer
- Bits or pieces?: An introduction to Wardley (Value Chain) Mapping – Simon Wardley
- Digital leadership: changing your whole approach, not just doing better digital projects – doteveryone – Janet Hughes
- What’s wrong with business cases – Jason Kitcat
- What a digital organisation looks like | by Janet Hughes | Doteveryone
- Six alternatives to traditional top down public service delivery – Eddie Copeland
- New operating models for local government – Eddie Copeland
Course Outline
The session looked at:
- What digital really means for local authorities
- What leadership looks like in the digital age
- Understanding enough about the technology
- Setting your strategic vision
- Digital culture and skills
- Overseeing the delivery of digital transformation.
After attending this online workshop you may like to attend:
Online Training: Developing an Organisational Culture to suit future operating models
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