Alan Brown

Alan Brown

Alan Brown

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Alan W. Brown is Professor in Digital Economy at the University of Exeter Business School where he co-leads the Initiative in Digital Economy at Exeter (INDEX). Alan’s research is focused on agile approaches to business transformation, and the relationship between technology innovation and business innovation in today’s rapidly-evolving digital economy. After receiving a PhD in Computational Science at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Alan spent almost 2 decades in the USA in commercial high-tech companies leading R&D teams, building leading-edge solutions, and driving innovation in software product delivery. He then spent 5 years in Madrid leading enterprise strategy as European CTO for IBM’s Software group. Most recently Alan co-founded the Surrey Centre for the Digital Economy (CoDE) at the University of Surrey where he led research initiatives in 4 EPSRC-funded research projects.

The impact of Alan’s research is seen in his consulting activities where he advises several startups, and works with clients in the public and private sector including the UK National Audit Office, Centrica, SAP, Resonate, McLaren, and several UK Government agencies. He has published 5 books and numerous papers on software engineering, systems design, and digital business transformation. He was also named in the apolitical.co 2018 list of the world’s 100 most influential people in digital government. In March 2019 Alan received a Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for AI and data science.

Publications

Books

Brown A (2019). Delivering Digital Transformation: a Manager's Guide to the Digital Revolution., Walter de Gruyter  Abstract.
Brown AW, Fishenden J, Thompson M (2015). Digitizing Government: Understanding and implementing new digital business models., Palgrave McMillan DOI.
Ali Babar M, Brown AW, Mistrik I (2013). Agile Software Architecture: Aligning agile processes., Morgan Kaufman
Brown AW (2012). Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing efficiency and agility to the global software supply chain., Addison Wesley

Journal articles

Lopez D, Brown AW, Plans D (2019). Developing opportunities in digital health: the case of BioBeats Ltd. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11  Abstract.  Full text. DOI.
Brown A, Fishenden J, Thompson M, Venters W (2017). Appraising the impact and role of platform models and Government as a Platform (GaaP) in UK Government public service reform: Towards a Platform Assessment Framework (PAF). Government Information Quarterly, 34(2), 167-182.  Abstract.  Full text. DOI.
Maull R, Godsiff P, Mulligan C, Brown A, Kewell B (2017). Distributed ledger technology: Applications and implications. Strategic Change, 26(5), 481-489.  Abstract. DOI.
Brown AW (2013). Toward the Agile Organization: Accelerating innovation in software delivery. Cutter IT Journal

Chapters

Brown AW (2013). Experiences with Cloud Technology to Realize Software Testing Factories. In Tilley S, Parveen T (Eds.) Software Testing in the Cloud, IGI, 1-27.

Conferences

Franceschi M, Morelli D, Plans D, Brown A, Collomosse J, Coutts L, Ricci L (2019). ComeHere: Exploiting ethereum for secure sharing of health-care data.  Abstract.  Full text. DOI.
Collomosse J, Bui T, Brown A, Sheridan J, Green A, Bell M, Fawcett J, Higgins J, Thereaux O (2018). Archangel: Trusted archives of digital public documents. DOI.
Brown AW, Ambler S, Royce W (2013). Agile at Scale: Economic Governance, Measured Improvement, and Disciplined Delivery.
Brown AW (2011). A Case Study in Agility-at-Scale Delivery.
A W Brown ALM, Oliva LR (2011). Practical Experiences with Software Factory Approaches in Enterprise Software Delivery.
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