Dave Briggs' other blog

There is a lot of ERP talk at the moment, particularly in the light of LGR, and so I thought I would ask one of my robot friends to do some research into the state of things at the moment when it comes to finance, HR etc systems in local government. You can find it […]

The service standard has had a difficult time getting traction in local government, as a report from the LGA made clear – and this despite councils theoretically committing to it when they signed the digital declaration. But when Atika asked about ways of working to embed the digital principles of user-centricity, iterative delivery, and data-informed […]

Am having another one of my mini (online-) identity crises. To be clear – this is not a real crisis and almost certainly doesn’t matter at all, so please don’t be concerned for me. I would though value any thoughts you may have. I’m self employed and mostly make my living selling consultancy services, and […]

A pleasant trip at the weekend to Oxburgh Hall, trying to make some use of our new National Trust memberships.

Following the announcements last week of the shape of local government arrangements in various areas, I’ve had to rethink things a bit. The move is clearly towards merging and empowering districts over centralising into unitary counties. This means an increase in disaggregation. Take the county I reside in, Norfolk, as an example: it is being […]

I have had the pleasure over the last couple of years of being a member of Woking Council’s Digital Design Authority. This is a group made up of a few senior members of the digital team at the Council, the relevant portfolio holding member, as well and myself and a few other independent folk with […]