Disruptive Innovators Network Summit 2022
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 10am–4pm Amazon HQ, London EC2A 2BA Join Professor Mark Thompson at DIN’s annual gathering for a day of purposeful inspiration with some of the very best leaders in people, tech, and innovation. Book now and find out more on Eventbrite
The Key Role of Digital Transformation in the Survival of Ukraine
Imagine that you are given a few minutes to evacuate from your home. Without prior warning, you are forced to make the choice of what to take with you and what to leave behind. It’s a nightmare scenario that we hope we never have to face. But, for many in Ukraine, it became a reality […]
Lowering the Frustration in Your Digital Transformation
I’m getting annoyed. Properly upset. I can’t seem to get anything done. And I am not alone. These days, I find the overwhelming sensation – from many people I talk to about delivering digital transformation – is frustration. All the new digital technologies and practices in the world will not make a difference if we […]
FT Longitude Report: Business, reimagined
“There’s no fast route to dealing with this in large heritage organisations,” says Brown. But many leaders are clear: they can’t hold back the more advanced parts of their businesses. Alan Brown, provided some expert commentary to this report, on behalf of DIGIT Lab. Access the report
A nice blueprint for a digital team
The other day I was invited to keynote an all-day academy session for Jadu, a leading supplier of platform software for local government. There was a great lineup of speakers, as usual – but something caught my eye that day that I thought deserves sharing more broadly. It’s this: So why do I like it? […]
You can deliver locally configured Public Services… while standardising your back-end
“You can deliver locally configured #PublicServices that will confirm with your #localism agenda, while standardising your back-end” – Mark Thompson delivers an insightful and engaging keynote at Jadu’s Academy in Birmingham.
How is technological advancement affecting who we are as human beings?
On 23 June, I gave a presentation on a panel titled “Subjectivity, subjects, asubjectivation and subjectivation: which relevance for posthumanist studies?”. Now, those interested in the digital economy might rightly ask themselves what on earth this has to do with technology, and this would be a fair question. In the broadest of all terms, the […]
University of Exeter leads consortium for Dstl’s new Defence Data Research Centre
University of Exeter will lead a consortium announced by the Government’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to form the Defence Data Research Centre (DDRC), as part of the newly released Defence AI Strategy and the newly established Defence AI Centre. Awarded through competition and operating under the SERAPIS framework, the DDRC comprises a consortium […]
Organisations Artefacts & Practices workshop
Wednesday–Friday, 22–24 June 2022, 08.30–19.00 PDT Mark Thompson: chairs session Metaphysics, time and posthuman organizing (II) (Thursday 10.45am PDT) partakes in the panel discussion: Subjectivity, subjects, asubjectivation and subjectivation: which relevance for posthumanist studies?’ (Thursday 5pm PDT) co-presents Engaging with emotions in sociomaterial practices: An affect-based model of agency with Edouard Pignot (Friday 2pm PDT) This […]
The Digital Leadership Gap in the UK Government’s Digital Strategy
In the past few days, the UK Government has issued its latest strategy for transforming into a digital future focused on accelerating the use of digital technology and data-driven decision-making in the public sector. It is a well-meaning and welcome document that sets out a common cross-government approach for 2025. The centrepiece of the strategy is […]
