Digital Transformation

Digital Leaders Innovation Week and Award

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Virtual Week, 14–18 October 2024 A dedicated week for all things Digital and AI. Join us and get the latest developments on Digital Technologies and how AI is revolutionising our world. DIGIT Lab is a strategic partner at Digital Leaders Innovation Week. The event will showcase a huge range of expert opinions and opportunity to network […]

From Research to Reality: Film and Highlights from DIGITLab’s DE-Nexus Showcase

Logos of DIGIT Lab, UKRI, and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, with the text “DE-Nexus Digital Economy Next Stage Symposium.” A hand holds a digital globe network, symbolizing technology and connectivity. The background features binary code and a futuristic digital design.

DIGIT Lab’s DE-Nexus symposium held 10-11th June during London Tech week, showcased exemplary Digital Economy research. DIGIT Lab is an Exeter-led 5-year EPSRC funded Next Stage Digital Economy Centre. The showcase presented the research of DIGIT Lab along with the 5 other EPRSC Digital Economy centres. The showcase was attended by industry, academics, and UKRI […]

Bridging Theory and Practice: Insights from Our Digital Transformation Workshop

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By Dr. Tzameret H. Rubin Working with industry partners is not something that I would say is lacking in my research, i.e., I should not be that excited about another opportunity, but this one is special. Nearly a year ago we started to design a workshop with the aim: “to examine the effectiveness of firms’ […]

Avoiding the Next Digital Transformation Death March

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We’ve all been there. That sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach as you make your way to the weekly project review meeting. Armed with the latest figures from your dev team about lines of code written, bugs found, test cases passed, and any other piece of data that might indicate you are moving […]

Digital Transformation is Dead. Long Live Digital Transformation!

Written by Alan Brown, 29 October 2023 In the past few weeks, I have been in three different discussions where I’ve been advised that the company doesn’t want to hear any more about digital transformation. It’s had its day. Old hat. Passé. I find that odd. In a world undergoing massive change, and desperately trying […]

Assessing the Health of Digital Health

Here is a blog that I wrote in February this year, around the time that I was working with the UK government Open Innovation Team with one of their projects looking at the use of AI in the NHS. My analysis feels even more fitting six months on! The last few months have been particularly […]

Big tech’s search for digital renewal in 2023

After a wave of optimism on digital transformation, there are challenges ahead in 2023. Alan Brown is a member of the BCS Fellows Technical Advisory Group (where this piece was originally posted), and takes a look ahead. It’s always fun to look ahead at the start of a New Year to imagine what we’ll encounter. […]

Golden Marzipan: How to Lead a Data-Driven Digital Transformation?

Friday 18 November 2022, 8am • online Alan Brown will discuss how a data-driven digital transformation may revitalise your transformation programme. He will describe how data-driven digital transformation can: Generate insights that aid in the development of innovative new products/services Result in completely new business models Enhance the customer experience Encourage strategic differentiation Alan will […]

Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM)

23–25 November 2022, London Alan Brown keynoting The working conference aims to improve the understanding of the practice of Enterprise Modelling (EM) by offering a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector. Hosted by Middlesex University London More information on the PoEM website