Tag: service owner
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Service Ownership – Delivering Outcomes by putting humans at the heart of Service Delivery
The public sector faces mounting pressure to deliver exceptional citizen services while navigating complex challenges, including budget limitations and evolving user expectations. Traditional project-based approaches, with their fixed timelines and pre-determined deliverables, often fall short of achieving truly transformative outcomes. This blog champions a shift toward a human-centered, End-to-End Service Ownership approach to delivering citizen…
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Service Owner vs. Programme Manager vs. Product Lead
What’s the difference? Does the name matter? Over a year ago, following an interesting chat with David Roberts at NHSBSA, I got to thinking about the role of the Service Owner; and why the role wasn’t working in the way we intended back in the dawn of the Service Manual. This in turn (as most…
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So, what is a Service Owner?
Before I discuss what (in my view) a Service Owner is, a brief history lesson into the role might be useful. The role of the ‘Service Manager‘ was seen as critically important to the success of a product, and they were defined as a G6 (Manager) who had responsibility for the end to end service…