Trusted by central government departments, local authorities, arms-length bodies, and public service providers, 6B delivers end-to-end strategic consulting — from early-stage discovery and business case development to technical strategy, innovation planning, and delivery oversight. Whether you’re navigating complex legacy estates, preparing for major transformation programmes, or exploring new digital opportunities, our experts support you with actionable insight, clear direction, and measurable impact.
Understanding Strategy and Innovation in Government
Digital transformation in government requires more than technology change — it demands strategic alignment, policy awareness, robust governance, and a user-first, service-oriented approach. Public sector organisations operate within strict standards such as the Government Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice, and UK GDPR, as well as procurement frameworks like G-Cloud and DOS.
Innovation in this environment involves balancing public value, risk, citizen outcomes, and long-term sustainability. It includes activities such as modernising legacy infrastructure, adopting cloud and data-driven technologies, enabling interoperability across services, prototyping new digital tools, and supporting cultural and organisational change.
6B works with government organisations to translate policy goals and operational challenges into achievable digital strategies, ensuring alignment with cross-government priorities such as One Login, interoperability initiatives, data accessibility, cyber resilience, and net-zero technology objectives.
Our Strategy and Innovation Process
Our process begins with an in-depth discovery and assessment phase. We collaborate with policy, operational, and technology stakeholders to understand organisational aims, existing systems, constraints, and future-state ambitions. This includes reviewing service performance, user journeys, technical architecture, data maturity, operational capacity, and regulatory requirements.
From here, our strategists and solution architects shape a clear digital direction. This may include service redesign, platform modernisation plans, cloud adoption strategies, integration and interoperability roadmaps, data and automation opportunities, AI-readiness assessments, or organisational capability development.
We then develop a structured strategy or innovation roadmap, detailing priorities, dependencies, risks, investment requirements, and measurable outcomes. Where required, we produce business cases aligned to HM Treasury’s Green Book model, helping secure funding and governance approval.
During delivery phases, 6B provides ongoing strategic oversight, design assurance, technical leadership, and PMO support. We guide teams through agile delivery, help refine service backlogs, review emerging risks, and ensure alignment with Government Service Standard assessments. We also support early-stage innovation, including prototyping, proof-of-concept development, and controlled environment testing.
Our iterative, transparent process enables government organisations to move from vision to delivery with confidence.
Benefits of Strategy and Innovation for Government
A well-defined digital strategy provides clarity, direction, and alignment across departments and delivery teams. It supports confident investment decisions, reduces delivery risk, and ensures digital programmes meet user needs while complying with government policy and governance frameworks.
Innovation-led approaches unlock opportunities to simplify services, automate manual processes, and improve data sharing across organisational boundaries. This reduces operational cost, increases efficiency, and improves the citizen experience.
A future-focused digital roadmap supports workforce transformation, helping organisations build internal capabilities and adopt modern engineering practices. This in turn drives long-term sustainability, reducing reliance on legacy systems and expensive proprietary technologies.
For citizens and service users, strategic transformation results in more accessible, reliable, and integrated digital services, supporting fair access, inclusivity, and improved public outcomes.
Why Choose 6B for Strategy and Innovation?
We have extensive public sector experience, working with central and local government, ALBs, and public service organisations, delivering strategy and innovation services grounded in real operational and governance environments.
We offer end-to-end capability across strategy, architecture, engineering, and delivery, ensuring recommendations are practical, implementable, and aligned with organisational constraints.
Our work is aligned to government standards including the Government Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice, DDaT capability frameworks, UK GDPR, and NCSC cyber security guidance.
We provide future-focused insight into emerging technologies such as AI, automation, cloud modernisation, and data platforms, ensuring innovation is safe, ethical, and sustainable.
We work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, embedding co-design, evidence-based decision-making, and open working practices throughout the engagement.
We prioritise measurable public value, operational efficiency, user outcomes, and long-term maintainability, ensuring strategies remain relevant and cost-effective over time.
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Readiness checklist for Strategy and Innovation
- Define your core organisational objectives and the policy or service outcomes your strategy needs to support.
- Review current systems, legacy constraints, and operational challenges that may impact transformation.
- Confirm governance requirements, including alignment with the Government Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice.
- Identify key user groups, service pain points, and priority journeys for improvement.
- Determine whether you need a discovery, business case, service design revision, or a full digital transformation roadmap.
- Prepare an overview of your technology estate, data flows, integrations, and current vendor landscape.
Speak To Our Strategy and Innovation Experts
Whether you're developing a new digital government services product or extending an existing solution with Strategy and Innovation, 6B brings the technical expertise, government insight, and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
