A User Centred approach to helping colleagues collaborate by improving DBT’s People Finder
How DBT's Employee Experience team combined user research, design and delivery expertise to improve the department's intranet.
Leading with kindness on digital change, engagement and adoption
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Stephanie Chaytor, Head of Engagement and Strategic Adoption, Posted on:
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People
When it comes to digital change - the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is making our people the priority.
Launching the Export Support Chatbot: Empowering small businesses to go global
How DBT's Export Support Chatbot will supply small businesses with the knowledge they need to export.
What our external data discovery taught us about data processing, sharing and retention
Some of the insights and opportunities we uncovered that are critical to how we use data at DBT.
How AI-ready content can boost policy effectiveness
As use of generative AI grows, so does the opportunity to meet businesses’ quests for information. Only if DBT’s online content is designed to meet users’ needs.
Data governance and security: Not optional anymore
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Szymon Walkowiak, Head of AI Ethics and Data Governance, Posted on:
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Professions
This article highlights key themes, challenges and opportunities around data governance and security from our recent cross-governmental discovery work.
Launching DBT's first public-facing AI feature
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Maddy Lunskey, Senior Product Manager, Shan Malik, Senior Data Scientist and Joseph Hearnshaw, Senior Data Scientist, Posted on:
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Products
How DBT created it's first public-facing online tool to help businesses find funding opportunities.
Building better data platforms: Our open source approach to infrastructure and tooling
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Soumaya Mauthoor, Head of Data Engineering, Michal Charemza, Tech Lead and Rachel Price, Interaction Designer, Posted on:
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Products, Professions
Discover how DBT is building a flexible, open source data platform - learning from the experiences of organisations across government, industry, and the charity sector. This blog explores the practical choices and challenges behind our infrastructure and tooling decisions.
Building a reusable data matching product
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Leonardo Mazzone - Senior Data Scientist and Will Langdale, Data Scientist, Posted on:
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Products
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT)’s Data Scientists have built Matchbox, an open-source platform that allows them to deduplicate and link datasets in a way that is measurable, iterative and collaborative.
Data Strategy in practice - Introduction and strategic ambitions
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Sian Thomas, Chief Data Officer, Graham Bird, Lead Product Manager, Data and AI Services and Jayne Spencer, Service Owner, Data Services Portfolio, Posted on:
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Professions
Reflections on research by the Digital, Data and Technology team in May 2025 with 15 organisations. This is the first in a series of blog posts on the topic.
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