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Strengthening business support through user-centred, evidence-led collaboration

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How our Digital, Data and Technology team's first Co-Lab collaborated with policy and Local Business Support teams across DBT to make policy and services more user-centred and effective.

Content isn’t static: what I learned about content ownership in the world of AI summaries

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We reviewed a number of Department for Business and Trade (DBT) tagged pages flagged for review to confirm ownership and decide next action: update or retire. Without clear ownership and ongoing stewardship, content can drift while remaining live. AI systems and search tools can continue to surface older material without context, increasing the importance of …

Promoting ethical alternatives to monetary incentives in user research

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At DBT, our research projects are based on ethical and methodologically sound foundations. We ensure that our participants are incentivised for their time and the expertise they share with us. In this blog, we share about balancing different kind of incentives for ethical user research.

Building better data platforms: Our open source approach to infrastructure and tooling

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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.