Technology.
Online experience.
Data.
Culture.
Operating models.
The people centred, digitally enabled change agency for local public services.
Our approach:
Assessment
Our openly published digital quality model helps organisations figure out where they are and where they need to get to with their technology, data, and online experience approach.
Strategy
Our strategy framework is designed to provide truly outcome focused long term strategy, backed up with blueprints, playbooks, and roadmaps to provide the what, how and when.
Implementation
Implementing your strategy needs the right funding, structures, culture, skills, and a roadmap of delivery. We have adaptable, ready to go approaches to all this stuff to help you get moving quickly.
Learning
Any change initiative involves a lot of learning for a lot of people. We deliver programmes of learning that go from bespoke workshops for leaders, to scalable e-learning for everybody.
About Dave
Localise is led by Dave Briggs, an experienced and well-regarded voice in local government digital, data and IT for over 15 years.
Dave adopts a practical attitude to the problems and opportunities he comes across with the organisations we work with. This is rooted in his experience of success and occasional failure in achieving outcomes from transformational change.
Find out more about Dave on his personal site, or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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For me, Dave talks the language that everybody understands, cutting through the jargon and making sense of a digital world that becomes harder each day to keep up with. His understanding of the challenges that local authorities face and what you can do about them is second to none.
Steve Bennett, Change and Digital Manager, Hart District Council
What we bring:
Understanding
Everything we do is rooted in the local context of your organisation and the people you serve. Every piece of work we complete involved taking time to understand what you need to do and why.
Innovation
We’ve got a handle on the best practice within the sector, but we also have our own ideas on how things could be even better. There’s nothing we like more than to work with organisations to reimagine how things can work.
Collaboration
Localise is committed to working in the open, sharing what we do so as many people can benefit from it as possible. We also actively seek to encourage collaboration across our customer base, to. ensure wheels are only invented once.
Pragmatism
We are proud of our pragmatism. We know that in local public services, compromise is always necessary, and our non-dogmatic approach will mean that you get the right blend of quality practice that works within your constraints.
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Supporting the community
We support the community of innovators in local public services by giving away as much as we can. Take a look below at some of the things we give away to help make things better for everyone.
Our news and insights
Join the Change Makers – every month, online!
My good friend Carl Haggerty and I are really pleased to be kicking off a new monthly thing - The Change Makers. The first one is on Tuesday, 28th January 2025 at 11am and you can sign up for it now. We'll be having a fairly open conversation about the broad topic of organisational change…
I think we need an “Institute for Digital Public Services”
Where’s the centre of gravity for conversations about how we can and should be leveraging the digital revolution for the benefit of society through our public services? I think about the flurry of activity when James Plunkett kicked off a debate a few months ago⬈ about ‘local GDS’ or the more recent excitement caused by the…
Where can councils start sharing effectively?
Following on from previous posts during the Great Local GDS Flurry from a few weeks ago (has everyone else moved on? Well I haven't!), I thought I would follow up on one of my ideas for what I see as the central problems facing local authorities wanting to make the most of digital (by which…