AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: Aesha Zafar
Aesha Zafar is head of strategic capability at DWP Digital. Her focus is on ensuring everyone’s capability, potential, and brilliance is recognised, harnessed, and developed. Aesha's role includes designing and delivering innovative, impactful and inclusive organisational strategies and cultures to build, transform, and maintain the best teams, skills, expertise, and places to work.
Three ways the public sector can hire, train and retain skilled digital transformation teams
The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the largest government departments in the UK, with more than 90,000 employees in more than 800 locations. It’s responsible for making $266 billion in payments each year. The DWP is carrying out a large-scale digital transformation to improve its services and the way it interacts with citizens. Read this blog post to discover three lessons that DWP learned about hiring, training, and retaining while reshaping its digital approach.