Digital Transformation in Public Sector Service Delivery Training Course

Course overview

Public-sector service teams are under pressure to improve access, speed and consistency while operating within statutory duties, legacy technology constraints, procurement rules and heightened public scrutiny. Digital transformation is not simply moving forms online: it requires redesigning end-to-end services around citizen needs, joining data responsibly across organisations, and measuring whether a new service is fair, usable and delivering policy outcomes. This course equips participants to turn broad transformation ambitions into governed, testable service improvements.

Participants examine practical approaches used in public-sector digital programmes, including service discovery, user-journey mapping, problem framing, operating-model design, data governance, accessibility and delivery prioritisation. They learn to create a service blueprint, define measurable outcomes and service standards, assess digital maturity, identify legacy-system dependencies, and build a prioritised transformation roadmap. The course also addresses how to work productively with policy teams, delivery partners, procurement colleagues, frontline staff and senior accountable owners.

Teaching combines instructor-led briefings with public-service case studies, facilitated design workshops, Power BI-based performance analysis and peer review. Each participant develops a Digital Service Transformation Pack for a selected service, containing a current-state journey map, stakeholder map, target service blueprint, metrics framework, risk register and 90-day action plan. This practical evidence gives managers a clear basis for approving pilots, sequencing investment and tracking delivery.

The course is particularly suited to professionals responsible for citizen-facing services, digital portfolios, service improvement, data-led policy implementation or technology-enabled operational change.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Map an end-to-end citizen service journey using personas, service stages, pain points and channel transitions
• Create a current-state and target-state service blueprint linking user actions, frontline processes, data flows and technology dependencies
• Assess a public service against Government Digital Service principles, accessibility requirements and measurable service standards
• Define outcome, operational, equity and user-experience metrics for a digital service performance dashboard
• Prioritise transformation initiatives using an impact-effort matrix, dependency analysis and risk-based sequencing
• Develop a data governance approach covering data ownership, lawful sharing, data quality and retention controls
• Construct a stakeholder engagement plan for policy owners, frontline teams, suppliers, community groups and accountable executives
• Produce a 90-day digital transformation action plan with pilots, governance checkpoints, delivery roles and decision criteria

Benefits of attending

Target competencies

Who should attend

• Public Sector Digital Transformation Managers — who must convert service improvement priorities into deliverable programmes
• Service Delivery Managers — who need to redesign citizen-facing processes without disrupting operational performance
• Policy and Programme Managers — who must translate policy intent into usable, measurable digital services
• Local Government Service Managers — who are improving resident journeys across housing, licensing, benefits or community services
• Data and Performance Analysts — who need to connect service data to operational and public-value decisions
• Procurement and Commercial Managers — who must shape digital supplier engagements around service outcomes and governance

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have experience working in a public-sector service, programme, policy, operations, data or technology role and understand the basic stages of their organisation's service delivery process. Familiarity with common terms such as stakeholder, business case, KPI, data protection and procurement is helpful. Participants should be able to use a web browser, spreadsheets and presentation software; a laptop is required for workshop activities. Prior coding, enterprise architecture certification, Power BI expertise or specialist UX design experience is not required. Complete beginners to public-sector delivery may need additional context from their organisation before applying the methods independently.

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor-led inputs followed by structured application to realistic public-sector scenarios such as benefits claims, licensing applications and case-management services. Participants work in groups to map journeys, identify failure demand, define service measures and sequence improvements around legacy constraints. Facilitators demonstrate practical use of Miro, Power BI and Azure DevOps concepts, then challenge teams through stakeholder and governance decision exercises. Daily outputs build into an individual transformation pack, reviewed on day five with an implementation-focused peer and instructor critique.

Course outline

Day 1: Public value and service transformation foundations

• Digital transformation versus channel migration in public services
• Public value, statutory duties and service outcome framing
• Government Digital Service design principles and service standards
• Citizen, resident and business user segmentation
• Service discovery methods and evidence planning
• Current-state service journey mapping techniques
• Failure demand, avoidable contact and channel-shift analysis

Workshop: Participants map the current journey for a selected public service and produce a prioritised list of user pain points, operational hand-offs and evidence gaps.

Day 2: Designing accessible, joined-up digital services

• Service blueprinting across frontstage and backstage activities
• Omnichannel service design for digital, telephone and face-to-face access
• WCAG 2.2 accessibility principles and inclusive design checks
• Plain-language content design and form simplification
• Identity, eligibility and consent touchpoints
• Frontline workflow integration and case-management requirements
• Target-state service design assumptions and validation criteria

Workshop: Participants create a target-state service blueprint that links user actions to staff roles, systems, data exchanges and accessibility controls.

Day 3: Data, technology and delivery governance

• Public-sector data governance roles and decision rights
• Data quality dimensions for operational service data
• Lawful data sharing, consent and retention considerations
• Legacy-system dependency mapping and integration options
• Digital maturity assessment across people, process, data and technology
• Cybersecurity and privacy-by-design risk identification
• Supplier, platform and procurement governance for digital services

Workshop: Participants complete a transformation dependency map and risk register for their target service, identifying owners and mitigation actions.

Day 4: Prioritisation, measurement and agile delivery

• Outcome trees linking policy aims to service measures
• KPIs for completion, timeliness, cost, satisfaction and inclusion
• Power BI dashboard design for service performance monitoring
• Impact-effort scoring and transformation portfolio prioritisation
• Pilot design, hypothesis statements and success thresholds
• Azure DevOps backlogs, epics and user-story structure
• Governance cadences, decision gates and benefits realisation reviews

Workshop: Participants build a prioritised transformation backlog and draft a service performance dashboard specification with baseline and target measures.

Day 5: Mobilising change and applying the transformation plan

• Stakeholder mapping for public-service transformation
• Co-design with citizens, community organisations and frontline staff
• Change impact assessment for roles, procedures and channels
• Communication plans for senior sponsors and operational teams
• Managing resistance, adoption risks and digital exclusion
• Ninety-day mobilisation planning and pilot governance
• Transformation pack review and executive narrative development

Workshop: Participants present their Digital Service Transformation Pack and produce a 90-day action plan with named stakeholders, pilot decisions, risks and measures.

Tools & standards covered

Miro, Microsoft Power BI, Azure DevOps, WCAG 2.2

A typical training day

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in the East Africa Time zone, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

How you can take this course

Certification

Participants who complete the full five days receive the Skillset Development Certificate of Completion, stating the course title, course code, dates and delivery format — suitable for professional-development records and employer reimbursement.

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