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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 […]

Zena Wood Recognised as a Tech Women 100 Winner

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We are delighted to share that Dr. Zena Wood, Associate Professor of Digital Economy at the University of Exeter, has been named a winner in the Tech Women 100 awards. This recognition highlights Zena’s significant impact in the field of technology and her continued efforts to champion women in tech. The Tech Women 100 awards, […]

Zena Wood’s Nomination for the Digital Leaders 100 – Pioneering Digital Transformation

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We are thrilled to announce that Dr Zena Wood, Associate Professor of Digital Economy at the University of Exeter, has been nominated for the prestigious Digital Leaders 100 (DL100) list. This nomination is a recognition of Zena’s outstanding work in advancing digital transformation within education and beyond. Zena’s innovative contributions, particularly in the realm of […]

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’ […]

A local government GDS might work – but only on top of standard technology

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By Mark Thompson • Originally posted in Computer Weekly The old debate about an equivalent of the Government Digital Service for local authorities has swung round again – but it will only ever work if it’s founded on common standards and technologies Recent murmurs of a local government equivalent to Whitehall’s Government Digital Service (GDS) […]

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 […]

How to empower women to pursue STEM careers

Professor Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen explores the barriers preventing women from entering the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and looks at what can be done to encourage more women to pursue STEM education and careers, emphasizing the need for diversity in teams to drive innovation and tackle societal issues. What are the barriers preventing […]

The Creativity Diamond

By Ji Han, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter A framework that considers both divergent and convergent thinking is needed to better support creativity. The term creativity is loosely used in society, to describe a wide range of outcomes ranging from ways of playing, dancing, painting, and making music to exploring and experimenting in […]

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 […]

Mark Thompson joins Digital Leaders’ Advisory Board

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Mark Thompson has joined the advisory board for Digital Leaders. “This is an important time for digital leadership, when understanding the impact of the fast-moving digital economy on organisations, culture, government, and the environment presents one of the very biggest challenges facing our society.” – Mark Thompson Mark has chaired Digital Leaders’ main annual conference […]

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