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…
New Models for New Normal
Dr Zena Wood recently contributed comments to an article in Market People Magazine (page 13), in reference to her appearance as part of London Market Forums New World…