Connecting our communities
I’d like to share some of the good work that we have being doing over the last 18 months both within our Digital & Customer Services and also by the community and voluntary sector to help those that do not…
Making our digital strategy accessible
In July I joined the team working on Birmingham City Council’s (BCC) Digital Strategy as the Content Designer. I was the only Content Designer in the team. I wanted to do an excellent job on the strategy and also show…
Creating a Field Working platform for Birmingham (and others!)
Since we just heard the great news that we were successful in our bid for Local Digital Fund round 5, that’s what James will be talking about in his first blog post: The project we applied for is one we…
Digital Strategy weeknote #23
A quick weeknote on the work that we are doing to develop our digital strategy and delivery plan. This is to let you know what we’ve been up to but not necessarily a weekly note! More an intent to keep you posted on a…
Shaping the Future – Birmingham Digital team
I’m now into month 3 in post and one of my first priorities has been to kick off the work to reshape the IT and Digital teams so that we have the capacity and maturity to support the Council with…
Designing our digital strategy
Earlier this year we embarked on the challenge of developing a new digital strategy for Birmingham City Council. We knew we wanted to form a multidisciplinary team and undertake the work using human-centred design principles, whilst adopting an agile delivery…
Starting as I mean to go on!
I am six weeks into my new role as CIO/Assistant Director for IT and Digital for Birmingham City Council. Since starting I have been meeting lots of people and getting up to speed on what’s been happening in Birmingham and…
Digital Strategy #22 weeknote
A quick weeknote to let you know what we’ve been up to but not necessarily a weekly note! More an intent to keep you posted on a regular basis as we start to move into a pattern of sprints. You can read more about the background to our work…