Our regular blog readers may remember at the start of last year we shared our exciting plans to replace Essex County Council’s (ECC) Intranet. We’re delighted to say we’re now advancing through our Beta Phase which will lead us ultimately …
We hear from Dani Spinage and Hannah Chan, about their work on the Essex.gov report a concern about a child journey and how they combined their two specialties to find a solution.
Find out how the 'Local Offer' project team are using simple tools to get great feedback from users in a remote working environment.
Council as a Platform aims to make our systems work harder so our residents don't have to. Take a look at how we're doing it.
We’ve created a new framework to help teams explore some of the main aspects of hybrid working. It will help them to understand and articulate what’s important as our short-term working models evolve into our longer-term – and maybe even permanent – ways of working.
Delivering something quickly, changing scope and adapting. Rich and Chanel tell us why true collaboration means sometimes it's good to get it wrong.
In a crisis, having a methodology that asks the right questions, gives shared understanding and develops practical solutions is invaluable. Nic Ward tells us how service design adapted to help the coronavirus response in Essex.
In times of crisis, we don't always have time to design solutions. Bhupinder and Ryan explain how service and business design methodologies can create the space our colleagues need for collaboration and decision-making.
Councillor Madden dropped by to see what stand up was all about. He stayed to chat to us about how impressed he was with the team's energy, how he did stand up before it was a thing and his belief in empathy in the workplace.
It's been a long journey, but we've managed to bring service patterns off the wall and into the real world. Service designer, Bhupinder, tells us how.