Ways of working

Taking a bold, innovative approach to tackle the digital and data recruitment challenge 

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Digital and data roles are known to be difficult to fill, not only in government but in the wider sector, due to a shortage of skills and high demand. In this blog post, we share how MHCLG Digital has taken innovative steps and applied digital, user-centred approaches to overcome the challenges associated with digital and data resourcing.

Unlocking collaboration: new ways of working in our delivery community of practice

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In this blog post, Dave O'Gorman, Head of Delivery, sheds light on an innovative approach to asynchronous working in the department's delivery community of practice, and illustrates how they’ve used it to improve their community onboarding process. 

A foot in the Digital Front Door: expanding digital thinking in policy-making

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In this post, Greg Winfield, Head of User-Centred Policy Design at DLUHC, talks about how adding user-centred design support at the spend control gateway spreads digital thinking across policy-making.