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Katie Driver

@thinkingalliance.bsky.social
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Putting Thinking First. Helping public and third sector leaders prioritise the thinking that builds trust, shapes better decisions and strengthens progress on the work that matters. Also: parent, runner, reader, volunteer, cat person, nature-lover...

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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Relieved and pleased to have successfully delivered a workshop on Learning Experience design together with @jocarter.bsky.social at today's #SDinGov We had a really lovely engaged, reflective group of folks, just like the Conference as a whole. Great few days - brain now officially full!
A workshop table strewn with resources, sticky notes, pens and suchlike. The hands of some of the participants are in shot, as they discuss things with each other.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
En route to Edinburgh for my first Service Design in Gov conference. Come say hi 👋 esp if it's your first too! Also, if you're there on Friday I'm co-delivering 'No More Content Vomit' with @jocarter.bsky.social showing how to use SD tools and approaches to create great training! #SDinGov2025
Image shows Katie on a train smiling at the camera as the scenery whizzes past.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
So much to digest from #ukgovcamp25 today on so many levels: people, process, content. Mostly people though: so many great folk with so many great ideas and experiences, and so much potential. Thanks everyone for making me feel welcome at my first GovCamp and I feel sure it won't be my last!
Four large pinboards standing in the atrium of the building, covered with a grid of large sticky notes, each summarising a pitch for a Gov Camp session.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
It's about to begin! #ukgovcamp25
Delegates in an atrium sitting on chairs facing the screen with the GovCamp logo. Some people are raising their hands.
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UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 14/01/2025
Coming to #ukgc25 on Saturday? Thinking of pitching a session? For inspiration, have a look at the historic session grid via bit.ly/ukgovcamp. You can also watch the UKGovCamp 2023 short video youtu.be/M1hD_Dyb8Zg or for a blast from the past the 2014 pitches www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqSo...
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Sessions @UKGovCamp
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Interesting read about the challenges and options when upgrading services alongside legacy systems.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Happy Friday.
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Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Fantastic opportunity to join the @instituteforgov.bsky.social as a researcher - please flag to all the brilliant people you know! www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...
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Researcher | Institute for Government
We are inviting applications for researchers, to start as soon as notice periods allow.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
www.linkedin.com/posts/kjdriv... Some musings on warning signs and what happens if we ignore them.
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Katie Driver on LinkedIn: Bobbles underfoot. And a yellow line. And then the white line on the edge.… | 15 comments
Bobbles underfoot. And a yellow line. And then the white line on the edge. Not one, not two, but three warning signs that alert us to the edge of the… | 15 comments on LinkedIn
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Amy Gandon @amygandon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Another thought on all the 'blob-bashing' chatter. Pleased to see McFadden swerve Labour away from the culture war but... There is an important distinction between *not criticising* your staff and *enthusing and inspiring them*.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
New post just out: "Policy vs Politics: the paralysis of technocratic government in a populist age" Why Labour is getting stuck on identifying an approach to governing. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...
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Politics vs Policy
The paralysis of technocratic government in a populist age
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Thank you to my former civil service colleagues and current civil service clients for continuing to work hard to make a real difference, notwithstanding the circumstances. www.linkedin.com/posts/kjdriv...
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Katie Driver on LinkedIn: Starmer and Dominic Cummings now agree on one thing - the civil service is…
*Sigh* As ever, it's a lot more complicated than it seems. I'm not going to start unpacking that box today. Instead, I simply want to say thank you…
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I was pondering what to say in response to the criticism of the civil service - along the lines of 'er, it's a lot more complicated than that...' but @acjsissons.bsky.social has done a far better job than I'd have managed so please read his 🧵 instead 👇
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I post most weekdays on LinkedIn. Here's today's musings. www.linkedin.com/posts/kjdriv...
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Katie Driver on LinkedIn: You have a 1000 piece jigsaw. But you only have time to place 200…
You have a 1000 piece jigsaw. But you only have time to place 200 pieces. You could scatter them around. 10 connected here, 20 connected there, and so on.…
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David Durant @bowsy.co.uk · 03/12/2024
Good to know that the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (previously, and as far as I can tell still continually referred to as, the DDaT framework) is being continually iterated. designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/03/u...
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Updating design skills in the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework
How and why heads of design across government came together to update the design skills in the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 03/12/2024
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Yay! Looking forward to this in the new year - soooo much to learn, and I hope I'll have things to share as well.
Screenshot of an Eventbrite email for UK Gov Camp 2025 saying 'Katie, you've got tickets!'
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great to be at the launch last night of @tomjonbrown.bsky.social 's first book The Mind of the Minister. Lots of nuggets from interviews with former Ministers and Perm Secs which I'm looking forward to reading!
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Advent birds from @levparikian.bsky.social Far better than cheap chocolates behind a cardboard window.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
www.weforum.org/videos/franc... What a great idea - put solar panels over car parks, rather than using agricultural or forested land.
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France Wants To Cover All Large Car Parks With Solar Panels
The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape glob...
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This looks handy. I'm gradually settling in here and it's good to see folks laying out the welcome mats and showing us where to find the tea and biscuits.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Worth a read. One of the areas where services don't recognise and work with the reality of people's lives.
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transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🚨 NEXT THURSDAY AT 6PM 🚨 It's @transformgovtalks.bsky.social #2, with: - @cthimon.bsky.social & Holly Simpson, MoJ, on product development/policy/digital - Isadora Schappell & Anna Goulden, @ucl-iipp.bsky.social , on missions & capability Join us in person at MoJ, or online! lu.ma/4gdplw35
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TransformGov Talks : Second event · Luma
For our second event we have Simon Manby and Holly Simpson from the MoJ speaking about digital and policy teams working together. Also Isadora Schappell and…
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Cracking start to the day, by the way.
Sun rising just above distant trees. There's a light mist in the air and hard frost on the grass in the foreground.
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Jo Carter @jocarter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hey #government & #ThirdSector folks Stop designing services that frustrate people 😢 Start designing ones that work Service Design in Practice is live! > Practical skills > Tools to fix broken services > Real talk from people who get it www.weareserviceworks.com/service-desi... Spread the news!
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hoping I'll get a spot for this, either directly or as a volunteer🤞🤞🤞 If you'd like to be in with a chance of joining, fill out the form by 3 Dec!
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A reminder/nudge to show up for your thinking today, as it doesn't get any easier if you wait for time / opportunity / seniority www.linkedin.com/posts/kjdriv...
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Katie Driver on LinkedIn: It doesn't get any easier. There isn't a grade boundary above which the…
It doesn't get any easier. There isn't a grade boundary above which the to-do list becomes achievable. Even the Perm Sec or the CEO doesn't find…
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Martin Gilbraith @martingilbraith.com · 26/11/2024
Have you ever wondered how to have a conversation that is focused, intentional, inclusive, and productive? Join me & @jofacilitator.bsky.social to connect, share & learn - in this free #facilitation webinar, 3-4pm UK on Mon 16 Dec #ToPfacilitation Register now! martingilbraith.com/2024/11/26/f...
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Free facilitation webinar: the Art of Focused Conversation with Jo Nelson
Monday, 16 December 2024, 15:00-16:00 UK time – Register now! “If you have ever wondered what questions to ask, or in what order to ask them, to lead a conversation that is focused, int…
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Dan Lyus @danlyus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Helpful post from Andy Mayne at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and South West Analytics & Infrastructure in Health
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Fab day delivering training in Liverpool today - we could even see a Liver bird from the training room window!
The upper part of the Liver building glowing in early morning sunshine A collection of contrasting buildings down towards the Pier Head area of Liverpool. One has a sloping roof and glass outer, which is glowing in the morning sun. The top of the Liver building, crowned by a Liver bird, peeking above an office block.
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Katie Driver @thinkingalliance.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Greetings folks! I thought I'd put my toe in the water here. Hoping it'll be a thoughtful, joyful, collaborative sort of place, and looking forward to connecting and reconnecting with people here.
Golden beech trees, blue skies and little fluffy white clouds reflected in Queensmere pond on Wimbledon Common.
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