Case Studies: Discovery
Foreign Direct Investment discovery
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The Department for International Trade (DIT) commissioned dxw to run a discovery on a new service for foreign direct investment.
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Department of Health intranet
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The Department of Health asked us to deliver discovery and alpha phases for a new intranet. They wanted a more responsive site and one that could be accessed from anywhere, to increase staff usage and connect the multiple systems they used for expenses, procurement and document storage.
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North Hertfordshire Homes
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Working with the senior team at NHH, dxw facilitated a strategy workshop where members of the team described their goals for the organisation and what the changes would mean. Taking these goals as the basis, the NHH team were able to define the capabilities they were going to need to build to achieve them.
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NHS Jobs
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The NHS is the fifth largest employer in the world with around 1.7 million staff, and its jobs website handles 300,000 vacancies every year. As the central component of all NHS recruitment, the NHS Jobs site is part of the UK’s critical national infrastructure. It handles over 4.5 million applications per year.
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Research for development finder
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The Department for International Development publish outputs, from reports to case studies, for the thousands of research projects and programmes that they fund. They worked with the Government Digital Service to go through a discovery phase and decided to move their content on to GOV.UK as a finder. Finders are a filtered search, which are used by government departments and agencies for custom filtering on specialist content. This met DFID’s needs in terms of publishing large numbers of documents that could be easily searched and accessed by users.
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BLOG.GOV.UK
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When government department sites moved to GOV.UK, a multitude of government blogs needed to make the shift, too. GDS spotted an opportunity to centralise and facilitate blogging by launching a blog platform specifically for central government, and asked dxw to bring it to life. It now hosts over 160 blogs and serves over 500,000 unique users per month.
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