Yesterday (Thursday 11th July 2013) Louise, Nigel Bishop (Head of Service Support, Marketing & Engagement), our Chief Executive Clive Wright and myself - attended SOCITM's annual website conference 'Building Perfect Council Websites 2013'.
We weren't just there to learn about what others were doing however as Clive, Louise and myself were also presenting.
Clive and I shared a presentation slot where he spoke passionately about how Shropshire is looking to reduce bureaucratic waste, designing its services based on the customer and supporting the Council's drive to be more digital.
My speech followed on from this and I talked briefly about how you build a more innovative team in order to fulfil your Digital Agenda's needs. I didn't say anything revolutionary, but I simply think the ideas need to be repeated every so often.
I've published my presentation and accompanying speech on SlideShare, so please feel free to download and use it to help you sell the vision of doing something similar in your organisation.
Louise will be publishing a blog post with a round-up of her presentation very soon, which will go into a lot of the detail - and answer a lot of the questions that were raised at her presentation.
It really was a great day, and we're happy to meet so many new and old faces. We'd also like to hear from any of you about your stories on creating more innovative teams, and what you have found works and doesn't work.
[caption id="attachment_1941" align="aligncenter" width="520" caption="A excerpt from the "Building Innovative Teams" presentation."]
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