In November 2025, Essex County Council brought together its Technology Services and Service Transformation teams to create a single, modern digital service: Essex Digital Service (EDS). This new service is a big step toward our ambition to be a leading digital …
Six months on from changing career, Bianca tells us how she came to work in Service Transformation after ten years in the charity sector.
The Intranet Discovery Week Notes are your opportunity to find out how the project is progressing in each sprint.
Here at Essex County Council (ECC) the platforms that we use are the cornerstone of information and function. The platforms enable our staff to do their jobs and for residents they become a vital source of relevant information to interact …
Our User Researchers spoke with colleagues at the charity Shelter about our user research panel: here is a summary of what they connected about.
There was a concern that Essex residents might not be self-isolating when they should. In this blog, the team outline how they used research and design on the front line in the fight against corona virus.
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.
Narelle Ong talks candidly about the insights and reflections the user research team gained, if they had there time again working in a crisis.
How international agile training gave a unique perspective on the function of facilitator. Greg Holt explores how his role as delivery manager can benefit from this new found outlook.
We're going into 2021 feeling hopeful. We've got 2 new leads, a digital analyst and a front-end developer. So, meet Emma, Ert, Laura and Thomas.
When events speed up, it's vital users don't get left behind. User researcher, Narelle Ong, gives us her tips for delivering top notch research in a crisis.