Digital, Data and Technology

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4OC in Digital, Data and Technology

Too often digital change delivers new systems but not better services. We help public sector organisations design, deliver and embed digital and data-enabled transformation that improves outcomes for residents, customers and frontline teams.

Our approach starts with people, not technology. Using GDS principles and user-centred design, we focus on what customers and staff actually need, shaping services around real customer journeys and operational realities. We then make technology work to support those needs, not the other way around.

From digital strategy, enterprise architecture and business case development through to digital maturity assessments, skills assessments, procurement, supplier selection and implementation, we bring hands-on delivery experience. We work closely with technology providers to ensure solutions are configured, delivered and optimised in line with your service objectives, ensuring digital investment delivers measurable performance, compliance and value.

The Team

Our team brings experience across user-centred design, enterprise architecture and change delivery in complex public sector environments. We work between leadership, service teams, IT and technology providers to ensure digital change is grounded in real customer needs and successfully delivered into live service.

What’s on your mind?Questions

  • Do you need to define a clear digital and data strategy and a roadmap that’s deliverable and affordable?
  • Is legacy technology limiting your ability to deliver change?
  • Do you want to understand your current digital maturity and capabilities?
  • Do you want to redesign services and automate inefficient processes to free up operational time?
  • Are you struggling to embed new systems and ways of working across service teams and operational functions?
  • Do you need to build the business case for investment but aren’t sure where to start?
  • Do you need to strengthen digital delivery capability, including skills, roles and governance, to deliver at pace?

How can we help?

We support you to plan, deliver and embed digital change from early-stage strategy and discovery through to procurement, implementation and making full use of your existing systems. Our approach is practical, user-centred and grounded in operational reality.

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Digital Maturity and Skills Baseline

We can help you build a clear evidence base for change. Using our Digital Maturity Assessment, we provide an independent view of how well your current digital, data and technology capability supports service delivery, and where the priority gaps sit across areas such as strategy, operating model, customer voice, applications and technology, data, and people and culture.

Alongside this, we deliver a Digital Skills Assessment to establish a baseline of confidence and capability across the organisation and identify the training, support and change activities needed to embed digital ways of working.

 

Digital Strategy and Roadmap

We work with you to develop clear digital and data strategies that reflect real customer needs and operational constraints. We translate ambition into a deliverable roadmap that is aligned to corporate priorities, financial planning and service improvement goals.

 

Requirements, Solution Architecture and Business Case

We help you define your requirements and shape solution architecture that supports end-to-end services, not just technology components. We then build business cases and investment models ensuring costs, benefits, dependencies and risks are understood and agreed.

 

Procurement and Supplier Management

We can help you through procurement, from market engagement and evaluation through to contract mobilisation. We can help you manage suppliers and ensure delivery remains aligned to service objectives.

 

Implementation, Adoption and Optimisation

We provide hands-on delivery teams to implement and embed new technology and ways of working. We focus on adoption, benefits realisation and service performance ensuring digital investment translates into measurable outcomes, compliance and value.

Across all of this, we work in partnership with your teams to building confidence, strengthening capability and leaving behind practical tools, ways of working and skills so your organisation can lead and sustain digital change long after we’ve stepped away.

A snapshot of some of our clients

Health Service Executive (HSE Ireland)

Digital skills mapping and roadmap development, and patient bed registration app/incident PowerApp development and implementation

Barnardo’s

The development and implementation of a Digital and Data Strategy, including Microsoft 365 migration, ERP rollout and architecture mapping

South Central Ambulance Service

Development and delivery of a strategy and business case to digitise organisational learning and development

Hackney Council

End-to-end service review to create a technology roadmap, digital operating model and target architecture

London South Bank University

Design and delivery of an automated employee reward and recognition scheme

Platform Housing

Project progression tool built in PowerApps and Rapid Improvement Cycles

Local Government in Ireland

Creation and implementation of a national digital strategy for local government, including Architecture Standards, digital operating model and digitalisation of customer contact

Transport for London (TfL)

Solution and technical architecture design support for a large programme related to GDPR, compliance and passenger security

You can contact us at: digital@the4oc.com

 call the office on: 020 3965 3948