Previous Drive Resources
On this page you'll find resources that have previously been included in the Drive Pathway.
March 2025 - Driving Digital Engagement
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Digital transformation often involves a shift towards a new culture where employees feel empowered to embrace new technologies. However, this can be difficult to achieve where there is reluctance to move away from current practices and learn how to use new digital tools. This online article has practical advice on how to get your employees involved, engaged, and interested in digital transformation: Link: 6 ways to engage your employees in digital transformation |
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| For each of the six suggestions in the article, reflect on how well these principles are already adopted by your organisation and take note of any advice that you could incorporate into your approach going forwards. |
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Think about the digital changes that have been implemented across your organisation in recent times and what was learnt from these about the best ways to engage staff.
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February 2025 - The Impact of Digital Transformation
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In this recorded webinar from The Good Things Foundation, the impact of digital transformation is discussed from lots of different perspectives. Although several speakers are from NHS England, the points discussed apply across the entire UK health and social care sector. Access the webinar and consider to what extent you agree with the speakers as you watch: Link: Digital Futures For Good Episode Five: Healthcare and Digital Transformation |
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On several occasions in the webinar, speakers discuss the importance of threading digital through all strategy areas and being careful not to look at digital in isolation. How well do you think your organisation currently does this? The speakers also discuss the need to work in partnership with other local organisations and services to maximise the impact of digital transformation on local communities. Think about what opportunities there are for you to take this approach, even considering partnership working within your own organisation. |
January 2025 - Data-driven Health and Social Care
As set out in their 2023 Data Strategy for Health and Social Care, the Scottish Government have a vision to ‘improve the care and wellbeing of people in Scotland by making best use of data in the design and delivery of services’.
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When used effectively, data collected by health and social care organisations has the potential to save time and money that can be put back into care delivery. Reflect on the current use of data across your own team or organisation:
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The tool linked below covers practical solutions to help change how your organisation uses data and how to engage others in this process. Work through the steps in the tool, taking note of any actions you could apply in your own team or organisation. Discuss these at your team meeting and agree a plan for improving the use of data. Link: Steps to improving services through better use of data |
December 2024 - Driving Digital Engagement
For successful digital transformation, we need to consider how to engage staff in digital ways of working.
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To explore this topic further, read through this online article: Link: Unlocking Digital Potential: 5 Strategies for Boosting Staff Engagement with Digital Skills |
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The article mentions that time, capacity, lack of confidence, and resistance can be possible challenges to engaging others with digital.
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For each of the 5 strategies for encouraging engagement with digital skills in the article, work with other leaders in your organisation to develop an action plan with realistic goals and timescales. Think about how you can use the suggestions in the article to support these discussions. Look for opportunities to talk about your action plan and associated activities with others from across your sector. Try to learn from what they are doing and incorporate examples of best practice into your own plans and actions. |
November 2024 - Leading Digital Transformation
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To start thinking about leading digital transformation, listen to Episode 11 of the Being a Digital Leader - the Good, Bad and Ugly of Digital Transformation podcast series. In this podcast Kes Juskowiak, Transformation Director at Scottish Water, discusses his own experiences of this topic. While you're listening, it might be helpful to note down the practical advice shared: |
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In the podcast Kes shares examples of successful digital transformation projects, and times when things didn't work so well. Thinking now about your own experiences of digital transformation:
Consider what you have heard about the building blocks of a successful transformation journey. How can you use this information, combined with your own experiences, to initiate or enhance conversations about digital transformation within your organisation? What practical steps can you take to ensure your team or own organisation are fully ready for digital transformation? |
October 2024 - Developing as a Digital Leader
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The recorded webinar (49m 41s) on the right covers what it means to be a digital leader. It looks at this from the perspectives of current digital leaders from across the health and social care sector. |
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In the webinar the panel talk about spotting key opportunities, which are often only small concepts that can have a significant impact when scaled. Reflect on the digital opportunities across your own organisation and consider which of these excite you most.
The panel also discuss how they have embraced, and even created, opportunities to influence their organisation’s approach to digital. Think about this from your own perspective:
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