Beyond the Mandate: How to Avoid Duplication Without the Force

I was at the Holyrood Connect Public Sector Digital Leadership Exchange at the University of Edinburgh earlier this week and one of the common threads was whether certain things should have a mandate from the centre to avoid duplication of Continue reading Beyond the Mandate: How to Avoid Duplication Without the Force→

Explaining the Lack of Weeknotes

I’ve not written any weeknotes since my unremarkable endnote. That was when I came to Defra as part of the Brexit surge. In my first few weeks here I was in the EU emergency centre, helping test our preparations in Continue reading Explaining the Lack of Weeknotes→

Good Strategy

This is adapted from a session where I shared some of my experience of being a strategy team leader and also from studying Strategy for my OU degree. I’ve been lucky enough to have been involved in strategy development within Continue reading Good Strategy→