Facebook and the Next Stage of the Digital Meta-morphosis
I have never liked being Alan Brown. It feels like such a boring name. Too easily forgotten or confused with so many others with the same identity. Apparently,…
Spring Forward: Why Now is the Time to Reassess Your Digital Values
Just a few days ago I had my first Covid vaccination jab. After more than a year of various levels of lockdown, this seems like such a big…
Doing Digital Differently: Learnings on Data, Collective Action, and Social Value
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of chairing the Digital Leaders Third Public Sector Innovation Conference. It was a really interesting day: there was a palpable realisation by…
Design Sprint! Engaging Students in Real Time Collaborative Learning
How we’re engaging students in real-time collaborative learning By last autumn, it was looking like online learning in some form or other would be here to stay –…
Assessing COVID-19’s Mortality Trend
I recently co-authored a paper exploring 28-day mortality for patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in England over the first 5 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the opening paragraphs…
Employee Wellbeing 2021: Roll Up Your Virtual Shirtsleeves
As multiple reports have shown, there’s a global talent shortage that could cost the world’s economies about $8.5 trillion in unrealized annual revenue. It is already fairly evident that governments…
A Year to Remember
This year has been remarkable for many reasons, not least the acceleration of digital transformation. Here are just a few highlights from us at INDEX. Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen joined our…
Digital Transformation: Looking Back, Looking Forwards
It has been exactly a year since the publication of my latest book on “Delivering Digital Transformation: A manager’ guide to the digital revolution”. During that time, an…
Workplace Culture: Let’s Take This Opportunity To Make Lasting Changes
‘May you live in interesting times,’ an English expression whose origin is commonly (and very probably wrongly) understood to be a Chinese curse, seems particularly relevant right now….
Avoiding Food Shortages: Lessons Learned From Covid-19
At the start of the first lockdown, images of depleted supermarket shelves sparked fears of food shortages. In early April 2020, we saw headlines like “Coronavirus UK: Fears…