Some intro here to this Dimension.
The Local Government Digital Quality Model is an openly-licensed framework for councils to assess how they are doing in terms of their digital approach.
Dimension: Strategy
One of the foundations
It provides advice and guidance on where they should be aiming to get to next, and ideas on the things to do to get there.
It is practical and pragmatic and designed specifically for local authorities.
Insights on Strategy
Where can councils start sharing effectively?
Following on from previous posts during the Great Local GDS Flurry from a few weeks ago (has everyone else moved on? Well I haven't!), I thought I would follow up on one of my ideas for what I see as the central problems facing local authorities wanting to make the most of digital (by which…
Is there a role in reformed public services for ‘system navigators’?
I’ve been mulling a bit on what could be funded at the front line of local public service delivery, were we to save a bunch of cash at the back end by harmonising some bits of IT and digital spend. The driving force, remember, for this drive for consolidation is not some techno-utopian centralised vision, but…
Our framework for (digital) strategy
We are doing a fair bit of strategy work with councils at the moment, and have hit upon a framework for putting them together which seems to help keep strategies strategic, and thus make them more useful. I’m typing here about the work we're doing on digital strategies specifically – although this stuff may well…
Structural solutions for structural problems
There have been several articles published in various locations over the years about whether some kind of GDS type agency might help local councils get better at digital (by which I mean technology, online experience, and data). It was when the question was first posed back in 2012 that saw LocalGovDigital emerge as a community…
Three levels of digital change
Even if we adopt Tom Loosemore’s definition of digital – and we probably should – it’s still necessary to interpret it in the context of the service you are looking to digitise. I’ve worked out a really simple framework for thinking about this, by dividing the options into three distinct levels, or approaches to, digital change.…