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Google Jobs will break 90 years of welfare policy — here’s what the policy response should be

In 2013, Ian Duncan-Smith said “looking for work should be a full-time job”. This was to be policed through the ‘claimant commitment’ a document that details, among other…

GDS Retrospective #2: tools for making & communities

Tools that help teams make things faster and tools help teams talk to each other better are very powerful leavers when it comes to digital transformation.

A GDS Retrospective #1: knowing when to run

This is part of a series of blog posts about reflections on my time at GDS. See background and caveats.

A pretty solid approach to building digital services and to digital transformation emerged out of the work of GDS and others…