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After starting at what was UK Trade & Investment a few weeks ago, with the remit of improving exporting content, I didn’t really know what to expect. With several new staff starting around me, though, I knew we could work …
Let's face it: it's not every day that you get the opportunity in government to be part of something that is truly global and transformational. We're looking for experienced people who can join the Department for International Trade digital team to work …
UKTI is undergoing transformation and part of that process is making sure the organisation knows how content is commissioned, created, distributed and managed once it’s live. A content strategy is the piece of work that pulls this information together, and …
Sitting within UKTI’s awesome digital team is the IdeasLab. Between us we have expertise in social research, service design, user research, comms, and straight-up policy: we’re a bit of a...
What is the concern? UKTI have a number of internal systems which support staff in their work. One of these, the People Finder on the extranet, has been reviewed following...
...London HQ, we want to provide the best digital services we can for our most valuable asset; our staff. What did we do Like all good digital teams we started...
We’re just over halfway through our research into how digital services could help UK businesses export. Following GDS guidelines, this phase is known as Discovery, when you find out what...
In November, some of our team went to Export Week, armed with a sketch of what we think a future UKTI export service might look like. We wanted to talk...
Picture by @gilest There’s lots of opportunity for UK businesses to export, but exporting for the first time can be challenging. How do you make contacts in companies in other...
...international trade (watch these spaces). We’ll be doing everything to drastically lower the barrier to trading internationally. Reducing the number of forms you need to fill out. Helping you find...