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Celebrating the First Year of Foundry

As we mark the first anniversary of Foundry, it’s a perfect time to reflect on our journey, celebrate our achievements, and look forward to the future. Foundry was established with a clear vision: to deliver value early and often by…

  • Kat Sexton
  • May 2, 2025
  • Digital Foundry, Digital Transformation

FoundryLIVE: A beacon of innovation and success

Organized by Birmingham City Council and Birmingham City University, FoundryLIVE featured hackathons and an InnoTech Expo, highlighting advancements in AI, data, and agile methodologies. At the end of June, FoundryLIVE, a two-day event, unfolded in Birmingham, marking a significant milestone…

  • Rachel Carter
  • August 5, 2024
  • Digital Foundry, Digital Transformation

Birmingham Foundry: delivering positive digital outcomes

Head of Function – Product, Kat Sexton, introduces Birmingham Foundry and explains how it is starting to deliver the benefits of working differently and sustainable change for the council. Birmingham City Council’s Product function was launched in March 2023. The…

  • Kat Sexton
  • June 17, 2024
  • Digital Transformation, Open Digital Planning

Open Digital Planning: A New Hope

As some of you may already be aware, the Planning department secured funding earlier this year from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) to be part of Open Digital Planning. A community of forward-thinking local authorities working…

  • imransajad
  • October 24, 2023
  • Customer Service Programme, Digital Transformation, Sprint Note

Customer Service Programme Sprint Note #4

Week ending: 14th July 2023 It’s been another busy couple of weeks on the Customer Service Programme and although we’ve had another round of Overview and Scrutiny Task and Finish Groups with the Executive Report tabled at Co-ordinating Overview &…

  • Nikki Spencer
  • July 17, 2023
  • Customer Service Programme, Digital Transformation, Sprint Note

Customer Service Programme Sprint Note #2 and #3

The journey continues as the team works hard with services to meet the vision of providing a consistent and quality customer experience for our users; Sprint note 2 and 3 gives an insight into the work to improve the customer…

  • Nikki Spencer
  • June 27, 2023
  • Customer Service Programme, Digital Transformation, Sprint Note

Customer Service Programme Sprint Note #1 week ending 12 May 2023

A lot has happened since our last end of year update, so this week our update provides highlights of a few of our workstreams. This is just a snapshot as there’s a lot going on and many crossovers with other…

  • Nikki Spencer
  • May 12, 2023
  • A day in the life of.., Digital Transformation, Strategy

Delivery weeknote – 4 min read

It’s been a while since I talked about what we have going on so thought I would share what I have been up to this week as a taster. My week started with a discussion about a ‘Housing Innovation Centre’…

  • James Gregory
  • May 12, 2023
  • Digital Transformation, Recruitment

Why we are adopting an agile mindset

People who work in local government are often driven by the desire to do good for their city and its people. That’s certainly what motivated me to join the council, and for the most part I love it. Being in…

  • James Gregory
  • May 2, 2023
  • Recruitment

Why you should come and work in Birmingham City Council’s Digital Service

We’ve been on a journey here in Birmingham to transform our digital and technology service from a transactional, ticket taking service to a human centred, enabling service working as a trusted business partner to support the Council to achieve its…

  • Cheryl Doran
  • April 25, 2023
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