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What’s it like to do user testing with employers?
An insight from ESFA user researcher Ayiesha Russell into how we conduct user research and testing to help inform and improve the apprenticeship service from a user-centric perspective
Technology
The apprenticeship service – our current roadmap
Following on from my last blog and some of the feedback I received, I wanted to share the current delivery roadmap for the apprenticeship service with you. This starts to outline the most significant developments we are currently planning to …
Better, quicker, effortless – building an industrial scale apprenticeship service
ESFA's Eileen Logie gives her insight into transforming digital services.
Scalable, portable and transferable – building a digital service others can use
How we kept the future, and others, in mind when designing the solution to a common problem.
The benefits of sharing data between multiple contractors
The Customer Data Service (CDS) system was launched last November. It allows us to transfer data in near real time between the multiple contractors who deliver the National Careers Service.
Making nine different organisations look like one
The SFA runs the National Careers Service, which offers careers information, advice and guidance to citizens. We work with a number of contractors to supply the service. While this works well, it led to challenges around sharing data.
Is your head in the clouds?
The nature of Information Systems Infrastructure has changed significantly over the past few years. Virtualisation has completely changed the way that IT departments can exploit their underlying technology platforms with cloud-based services offering the most exciting potential.
Service Integration and Management - SIAM 3 months in
In a previous blog we explained that we have moved away from large IT contracts, handled by a single outsourcer, to a “tower model”. In this model separate IT components are supplied by different companies, and Service Integration and Management …
Supply chain transformation - procurement lessons learnt
In a previous blog we explained that we have moved away from large IT contracts, handled by a single outsourcer, to a “tower model”. In this model separate IT components – such as hosting, applications, network, security and desktop support …
The challenge of untangling project siloes
Projects are hard. Especially IT ones. As well as considering the business objectives you also need to consider lots of other things: the sort of technology platform, the support model, security.