Missed a week because Christmas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Even so, think I’ll keep the numbering consistent so Weeknote five it is.
Hope you all had a good break. I did, despite the terrible weather.
What I’ve been up to
I’ve started engaging with my wider management team on the draft digital strategy and outcomes roadmap. Had some great feedback – which is even better when I realised that half the directorate was still on extended Christmas leave. Looking forward to some sleeve rolling on this over the next few weeks so we can share with the wider organisation.
I’ve mapped out our key meetings and shared with my management team so we can be clearer about purpose of each business interaction. Trying to be as efficient as possible, make sure we’ve got the right people in the room with the right management information at the right time etc etc etc
Properly been getting my head into funding needs for the next financial year. We’ve got a lot of demands (hence the digital strategy and prioritised roadmap work mentioned above) including how we will support digital products, services and components developed as part of our transformation programme as they become live.
Been working with our digital outcomes and corporate communications team to nail down the design brief for an external business to business website we are launching in the spring.
What I’m planning next
I wrote out to all of Team Digital just before Christmas outlining my initial thoughts and soliciting feedback. I’m conscious that a lot of people were already away on leave to I’m going to follow up the request. It’s really important I understand what works well and not so well for people who have been working here a lot longer than me.
I’m going to ask the wider HE leadership team for some feedback on how they work with us and how we could make that all better.
Now that people are back, getting into more gnarly details about strategy development, roadmap, funding, website etc etc
Meeting up with Karl Hoods from DSIT/DESNZ to get a bit of peer feedback and support on my plans.
Issues and escalations
Well, my car broke down on Friday afternoon which was a huge distraction and annoyance. So if you were expecting a response from me then, that’s why you didn’t!
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