Design and manufacturing: digital technologies and the human in the loop
By Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen, Professor of Design Engineering and Innovation and Director of DIGIT Lab Today I take over as Director of the DIGIT Lab, and continue to work…
Waiting over five hours at A&E increases risk of death
This press release relates to this paper in the British Medical Journal by Simon Swift et al. Patients made to wait longer than five hours at A&E face…
Harvard Business Review: Driving Digital Adoption for a Competitive Edge
Download report as PDF Includes thoughts and analysis from Alan Brown Now more than ever before, expectations of consumer-grade experiences in the workplace are challenging companies to prioritize…
Ready for 2022 – after another great year!
2021 was another great year for us at INDEX. From published papers to partaking in panel discussions, there is a lot to choose from for our highlights of…
Rethinking food systems to tackle food waste
Food systems have reportedly been largely omitted from the Cop26 agenda, with critics asking: why isn’t food waste a priority? A few years ago, I worked with the leading UK charity…
Too Big to Fail
I remember the first time that I began to really understand the broad impact of the internet across all of our lives. Several years ago, I rang at…
Data for Policy 2021 conference
14–16 September 2021 Data science innovation in governance and the public sector. Zena Wood and Phil Godsiff presented papers for Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services Network+
How accurate are online symptom checkers?
From paper by Adam Ceney, Stephanie Tolond, Andrzej Glowinski, Ben Marks, Simon Swift, and Tom Palser. In 2013, the World Health Organisation reported that the world was short…
HICSS Conference: Call for papers
Co-creating value in the Circular Economy with financial services minitrack Minitrack cochairs: Zena Wood and Phil Godsiff, with Kyle Alves (University of the West of England) and Scott…
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…