What an SME safari taught us about bias and context
How meeting real business leaders on an SME safari in Manchester challenged our “common sense” narratives about what businesses think and do.
Britain Gets Talent: Fixing a fragmented offer to attract global talent
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Graham Sanders, Senior Interaction Designer, Sarah Katz, Digital Evaluator (Statistician) and Olviya Silvary, Fast Stream Data Analyst, Posted on:
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How might a clearer, more joined‑up digital experience help attract and reassure global talent choosing the UK?
How we’re making strategic decisions based on the needs of businesses
Find out what we have learned as we take a more strategic view of user research insights to improve decision making and support businesses more meaningfully.
Strengthening business support through user-centred, evidence-led collaboration
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Andy Davies, Lead Service Designer, Rae Jones, Lead User Researcher and Becky Pawley, Lead Policy Designer, Posted on:
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Professions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From daunting to demystified: The evolution of Service Assessments in DBT
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Emily Agnew, Assurance Manager and Matt Sellars, Assurance, Governance and Reporting Support Officer, Posted on:
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Professions
What started as a formal requirement has evolved into a more collaborative, human, and forward-thinking process. It is about helping teams build better services, not just pass a test.
Using self-hosted Large Language Models (LLMs) securely in Government
Find out how and why DDaT has taken the important step of self-hosting LLMs within a secure, internal environment.
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