A episode card for Government Transformation podcast episode 2 with Siobhan Benita and Kevin Cunnington How can governments and departments create their own vision for digital transformation? What does it take to move from vision to implementation? And what common mistakes should be avoided? In episode one of our new Government Transformed podcast – brought to you with support from knowledge partner Visa – former UK Government Digital Service (GDS) director general Kevin Cunnington defined true transformation and outlined its potential. In this, episode two, he and podcast host and former senior civil servant Siobhan Benita discuss how governments can make progress in their digital transformation journey – and why the worst mistake an organisation can make is to under-invest in its people. When Cunnington joined the UK civil service in 2013, the heads of government departments, he says, “didn’t know what digital transformation was” and very few departments had a “decent vision” for what they might achieve with tech. He describes the process of creating such a vision within the Department for Work and Pensions – a project that involved 18 months of hard work and which demonstrated “the layers of change that were required right from the […]
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