Well that week went super fast. The holidays are approaching at speed and my mind is racing about how to hit the ground running in the new year and begin to make a positive impact.
What I’ve been up to
- Managed to nail a first draft digital strategy and prioritised roadmap for the digital function. I’ve synthesised what I’ve heard, read and learned over the last few weeks and spent an afternoon with my executive director, surrounded by post-it notes (ah, the memories), to get to an agreed position on our forward direction that we can socialise and stress test early in the new year. I’ll share my thinking here in more detail once I’ve had a chance to introduce it to my leadership team
- Used the quiet time to sit down and properly read in-flight and proposed and superseded business cases relating to our transformation endeavours to give me better context on where we are in our change journey.
- Met up with a couple of former colleagues, both with earlier experience of working with Homes England on their digital transformation, for more perspective on how we’ve got to where we are.
- Spent some time with various digital business partners to understand our information flows and decision points. Spent some time thinking about the different types of meetings and frequencies we need (Death by Meeting) so we can make more efficient use of our face to face time going forward
What I’m planning next
- Immediate: decompressing over the christmas break
- New year: digital strategy, roadmap, governance and reporting, funding.
See you on the other side!
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