Digital transformation

Changing culture from the bottom up

Dan Beasley, 26 June 2017 - Defra digital, Digital transformation

A blog by Dan Beasley - a Digital Delivery Manager - about how Defra is changing its culture from the bottom up and some of the ways of working we are using to do that

DataMash: thank you!

Mike Rose, Head of Engagement, OpenDefra, 13 June 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation, Earth Observation, Geospatial information, Open data, Software tools

On 24–25 May 2017, Defra and Ordnance Survey ran a two-day un/conference (that's part conference, part unconference) at the Ordnance Survey Headquarters at Southampton. These photos capture a little bit of the magic that happened there...thanks to David Tait, Mattie Yeta

A pause on activities

Defra Communications, 21 April 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra content design, Defra digital, Defra Science and Innovation, Defra services, Digital transformation, Earth Observation, INSPIRE, Maker community, Open data, Software tools, UnITy

We officially enter a pre-election period as of midnight tonight, so there will be no new blog posts until after the election.

Sprintnotes E02: The new normal

Bella Jones, Communications & Engagement Manager, Capgemini and Farah Ahmed, Head of Strategy, Defra Data Transformation Programme, 20 April 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra digital, Digital transformation, Open data, Software tools

We’ve just wrapped on Day 2 of our two-week sprint over at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange.

Sprintnotes E01: Post-it People

Farah Ahmed, Head of Strategy, Defra Data Transformation Programme and Mark Todd, Flood Risk Manager, Environment Agency, 19 April 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra digital, Digital transformation, Open data, Software tools

This is the first of a series of blogposts – ‘sprintnotes’ – covering a two week sprint aiming to make better use of flood data.

Guerrilla statistics

David Lee, 18 April 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra digital, Digital transformation, Open data, Software tools

Last year I was lucky enough to get on to the GDS Data Science Accelerator. On this scheme participants offer their enthusiasm to learn data science and their time to work on a project of potential value to their departments. …

Inductions for teams, not just organisations

James Cattell, 18 April 2017 - Defra digital, Digital transformation

A blog from James Cattell about being inducted to the Defra Digital team and his thoughts on comparing this to a traditional organisation induction.

Introducing the Enabling Digital Transformation team

Colin Banno-Thorton, 13 April 2017 - Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation

Our job is help Defra deliver good digital services, mainly by supporting the teams that do the delivering. In this post, I'm going to explain how we think, what we do, and how we work.

Defra's Data Principles

Andrew Newman, 4 April 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra services, Digital transformation, Open data

To make sure Defra group can act together, the way each part – from smaller teams to whole agencies – designs, shares and uses data for operational and policy decisions needs to be aligned to common principles.