What we do
Methods is the leading digital transformation partner for the UK public sector.
We bring innovation, bespoke development, and service management capability to align UK public services around citizens and safeguard them for future generations.
Some of Our Clients
Re-imagine
Methods empowers you to:
- Standardise and consume commodity technology
- Use digital technology to reconfigure around the customer
Very unusually, we are experts in both.
Break free
Legacy businesses are complex and supplier-dependent; they also struggle to share, re-use, learn, partner, and adapt.
Methods helps you evolve from your legacy – and we lead the field.
Take control
Breaking free is just the start. You need clear thinking to rationalise, redesign, and re-platform your services and ensure they are secure. You also need to build new skills, culture, partnerships, and maintain business as usual.
Methods is a digital heavy lifter. We support your entire journey, and leave you in control.
Why work with us
Long-standing public sector experience
We have 25 years’ expertise supporting UK public services across central and local government.
Consistent thought leadership
We are acknowledged as ‘go to’ thought-leaders on Digitizing Government. We can energise colleagues and help you build consensus about the path ahead.
We are digital heavy lifters
We are the only govtech partner spanning legacy migration and ground-breaking digital builds. We are pragmatic and realistic about your current environment.
Tried and tested techniques to reduce complexity and duplication
We bring cutting edge techniques such as value chain mapping to help you build clarity about where to focus.
We are on your side
Methods people care deeply about safeguarding our public services for future generations.
Proven platform capabilities
We use platform technologies to build and deliver prototypes in weeks and full implementations quickly and cost-effectively.
What’s new at Methods
The messy divorce of BAU and Change…
Public sector has resulted in me becoming convinced that the separation of "BAU" from "change" is hamstringing chances of…
A young person who has 4 or more encounters with an employer is 86% less likely to be unemployed or not in education or training. Methods is playing its part.
Methods has been supporting OPERA in 2018 to develop programmes and activities that enable disadvantaged young people to gain…
Data – a user’s best friend
As a user researcher working closely with the public sector, I’m passionate about what digital projects could do to transform all…
Discovering the elusive concept of culture in design through how people around the world wash their socks
Recently I attended a meetup about "Researching Culture: a masterclass with Ipsos MORI."I chose the event because research is an…
Announcement: Management Consultancy Two (MCF2)
We are pleased to announce that Methods has been awarded on a place on the Management Consultancy Framework Two (MCF2).
If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it
The time has come for healthcare data to be taken out of the depths of the back office and the cautious care of the analyst's and…
But what about everybody else?! User research sample sizes and use.
Here is the reasoning behind sample sizes when conducting exploratory user research and how to use that research to your…
Capabilities as a means of identifying technology choices
Tom explains some of our latest thinking at Methods on how breaking down processes and technology into their constituent parts…