UK

Our work in the UK spans central and local government, multinational businesses, the NHS, universities and leading charities.

Headquartered in London, we have worked across the UK since 2017, bringing agile, iterative and user-centred ways of working to increasingly diverse organisations.

As the leadership team that founded the Government Digital Service (GDS), we made the UK the world’s foremost digital government, and a global trailblazer for institutional transformation.

Since then, our work has expanded across all parts of the public sector and large blue-chip businesses. Our clients have included high street banks and retailers, national broadcasters, universities, NHS trusts, local authorities, and government departments.

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Beyond boom and bust: from programmes to services in the UK's Home Office

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Supporting UK Parliament to design a dynamic operating model

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Meet the team

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Our team

Our UK team includes expert digital leaders and practitioners who bring experience of transforming businesses, governments and charities.

They include former Chief Digital Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Product Directors, Design Directors and Transformation Directors from central government and local government units, healthcare organisations, universities, charities and both large businesses and start-up/scale-ups.

Our common experience is that open, multidisciplinary, user-centred ways of working and empowered digital teams are fundamental to achieving mission and purpose across all sectors.

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The UK team at Public Digital

What we do

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    Defining new digital and data strategies for organisations.

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    Founding and growing new digital teams, and coaching senior leaders to lead them effectively.

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    Leading wholesale operating model transformation at large service organisations in the private, public and third sectors.

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    Transforming ways of working to enable a culture of delivery through empowered multi-disciplinary teams.

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Digital strategy

We help organisations set a digital strategy which translates into tangible delivery.

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Working with governments; staying open and transparent

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Leaving the metaphors behind

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