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…
Data-driven Design – Not a Game of Chess
The increasing availability of data provides opportunities to improve, optimise and reduce waste in current systems, products and processes. One of my research interests lies in understanding how…
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…
Call for proposals via DEAS Network+: Financial Services
The Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) Network+ has released a call inviting proposals for research that addresses the challenges of one of our industry partners from Financial Services…
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…
A business model that gives your customers what they want
What if your organisation could guarantee the outcome most desired by your customers? Instead of peddling the dream in order to sell a product, why not sell the…
Lessons from Cambridge Analytica – Using Digital Data to Drive Decision Making
In a world being digitally transformed, the fear for many is that the digitally-empowered will increasingly exploit technology for their own personal gains, manipulate laws in their favour,…
Challenges and Opportunities in Manufacturing Today
Recently, I ran an online workshop for organisations to gain a clearer understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing supply chain design, integration and optimisation within manufacturing today. These are…
The Future of Data in Healthcare
The Coronavirus pandemic has shown data science in healthcare in good and bad lights depending on your viewpoint and beliefs. This is a short high-level view (written before…
Your Algorithm Doesn’t Know me!
In the UK to deal with lack of exams during the Covid lockdown, they turned to automated decision making via algorithms. How did that work out for you…