Serving the Public Sector: What Being an Infrastructure Provider Really Means in 2021
I recently keynoted Amazon Web Services’ EME Public Sector sales community awayday, as part of our ongoing partnership with AWS. There were over 600 people on the call from all over EMEA. The talk invited delegates to consider the unprecedented possibilities for delivering social value that are open to major cloud service providers, in helping […]
DEAS Network+ Calls for Proposals
Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) Network+ has several calls for proposals out, with deadlines approaching imminently. Here’s a summary: Literature Review Call The DEAS Network+ is inviting proposals for exploratory scanning studies that should focus on examples of changes in business models through use of new digital technologies in insurance and the financing of service […]
Digital Leaders: Public Sector Innovation Conference 2021
Tuesday 2 March, 9am – 3pm Chaired by INDEX’s Mark Thompson, with Simon Swift as a speaker. As vaccines emerge and we can all start to think about a post-covid period of recovery, the government can “Build back better” and deliver the social value recent months has shown we need – often by bringing in […]
DIGIT Lab launched to help businesses close ‘digital transformation gap’
Large organisations will be helped to adapt to the digital transformation of society as part of a new research initiative, led by INDEX at the University of Exeter Business School. The Digital Innovation for Growth, Impact, and Transformation (DIGIT Lab) has been named the latest of six national Next Stage Digital Economy Centres by the […]
Digital Jersey Annual Review
Friday 5 February 2021, 9.30–10.30 am INDEX’s Alan Brown is a guest speaker. Find out what Digital Jersey achieved during a very challenging year for all. How did we pivot and respond during lockdown, supporting the Jersey community and our members? With guests including PwC’s CI Climate Change Specialist Alison Cambray. Find out more on […]
Digital Scotland: Strategies for Government as a Platform
Tuesday 19 January 2021, 2pm Part of the DigitalScot.live webinar series Presenting on ‘Learning from Heart FM – How Radical Digital Thinking Can Preserve Our Public Services‘, INDEX’s Professor Mark Thompson explores what the public sector might learn from commercial sector digital business models notably a ‘Platform’ approach.
BSI’s Net Zero Week
Thursday 21 January, 9–10 am British Standards Institution’s Net Zero Week runs 18–22 January 2021. Each sector-specific webinar will provide high-quality insights, knowledge and advice on reaching net-zero in your sector by 2050. Our Alan Brown speaks about challenges for successful industrial digital transformation in achieving net-zero. The UK has a world-class reputation for engineering […]
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 team in April. She has published 5 papers, taken part in 3 conferences and written 2 journal articles (on data-driven orthoses design and shared understanding within distributed […]
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 extraordinary period in all of our lives, we have seen many businesses face a fight for survival, endured personal challenges that have redefined how we view the […]
AWS Digital Transformation for UK University Leaders
14–18 December 2020, 9am–12pm Virtual event eduweek.splashthat.com This week-long event is designed for UK university leaders to dive deep into how digital transformation can help their institutions better serve students and society overall. It brings together key voices who have been instrumental in their universities’ own transformations and offers practical ideas to take away and […]
