Faced with an ever-growing list of demands, how does a delivery team decide what to do? It’s a challenge that every delivery team in every organisation has to grapple with. Corporations have to trade off initiatives that will grow their…
We recently launched the city’s co-designed Digital Inclusion Strategy for Birmingham citizens and communities. The last year or so, we as a Council, have been working incredibly hard with partners across the city to begin to develop Birmingham’s approach to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
