This webinar – which takes place one day after government’s announcement of long-term spending and strategy plans – will examine how departments can ensure major technology initiatives are delivered successfully. The discussion, with Civil Service World and Baringa, will cover a range of issues related to planning, funding, and delivery, and will ask how the government’s coming wave of digital and AI initiatives can deliver impactful, sustainable change.
While digital has long been championed as the key to boosting productivity and outcomes, attempts to deliver digital transformation often fall short of their stated ambitions. How can public sector leaders have confidence that every digital and artificial intelligence (AI) programme has the right objectives, is set up to deliver successfully, and will achieve lasting impact?
Common challenges include lack of clarity in the outcomes that initiatives are seeking to achieve, inflexible funding and delivery models, a propensity for optimism bias, and a reluctance to acknowledge when things are not going to plan.
These problems are, at least, well recognised, and recent changes to the Digital Centre of Government are designed to reshape how the centre works with departments in delivering transformational digital programmes.
Discussion points include: