How can the public sector make it easier for people in need to understand what help they might be entitled to? Here’s look behind the scenes on a design sprint looking at just this problem. Continue reading Lab+: Another view of the SmartStart design sprint
As part of the Lab+ work happening in the Service Innovation Lab, the public sector is exploring new ways to improve people’s experience with government. This is a description of a recent design sprint. Continue reading Lab+: Design sprint for SmartStart
An summary of the user research done at Lab+: we wanted to understand common threads, trends or inconsistencies worth exploring. We also looked for user needs and insights across this research as well as in recent international reports. Continue reading Lab+: Analysis of existing user research and needs
After several years with PHARMAC, shaping words and websites about how medicines and medical devices are funded to get the best health for New Zealanders, Jennifer Geard writes about her recent experience on secondment at Lab+.
Continue reading Lab+: Why I took time away from a perfectly good job to take on a secondment
An overview of the Lab+ work focused on exploring how a data-driven all-of-government Services Finder could work. Continue reading Lab+: All-of-Government Services Finder
People from the Tertiary Education Commission, Inland Revenue and the Commission for Financial Capability joined Lab+ over the last month for a design sprint to answer critical questions about improving outcomes for students by prototyping and testing ideas. Continue reading Lab+: Working together to improve outcomes for students
The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) Service Innovation Team spoke to the business and technology teams at the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) about their digital transformation journey. We discovered a relevant and important story that would benefit other agencies. Read the full case study below (or in PDF (175KB). It includes key lessons learned, areas of interest, and importantly, … Continue reading Lab+: MSD and their digital transformation journey
This post is a high level overview of the user research we collected, analysed and conducted during the Lab+ work with a focus of ‘becoming a senior’ as a convenient lens to explore the concept of integrated services. Continue reading Lab+: Our “Integrated Services” Design Approach and Summary
The Lab+ research-backed visions of government service delivery show future state models, which allow us to work backwards and reverse-engineer the components and requirements of the vision. This post is a snapshot of our first attempt to identify the sorts of functionality needed to support these future states. Continue reading Lab+: Reverse engineering the future states
In June, the Lab+ Government as a Platform team ran a small workshop with people from private, community and government sectors to explore the idea of third parties building value on top of government components. The results are published here. Continue reading Lab+: Outcomes from the Industry and Community Sector Workshop on Govt as a Platform