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…
Digital.ai’s Workplace of the Future
9 December 2020 Our Alan Brown helped deliver this webinar alongside Christine Ashton (CIO Cogventive Ltd), Danny Presten (Digital.ai’s Chief Methodologist) and Derek Holt (Digital.ai leadership team). Dropbox,…
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…
Workplace Culture: Let’s Take This Opportunity To Make Lasting Changes
‘May you live in interesting times,’ an English expression whose origin is commonly (and very probably wrongly) understood to be a Chinese curse, seems particularly relevant right now….
Two challenges for councils
On 2 July, housing secretary Robert Jenrick announced that a recovery and devolution White Paper will be published later this year. The paper and its outcomes will be…
Combatting the Male Mental Health Crisis in Corporate Culture
With World Mental Health Day coming up on Saturday 10 October, we revisit David Plans’ insights into male mental health in corporate culture. Corporate culture and practice have…
How Not To Be Agile
Agile approaches are now widely used not just in mainstream software development but also in many other sectors. However, experiences working with large established organizations trying to use…
The Future of Work: Reflections on 3 Panel discussions during July 2020
A range of fascinating topics During the last few weeks, I was fortunate to be asked to speak and participate in a series of events with Leaders groups…
Patterns and insights for distributed design teams
Paper by Philip Cash, Elies Dekoninck, and Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen Distributed design teams are commonplace, with globalisation, where parts of the value chain are offshored or outsourced. Today, as…
Digital Transformation – Time to burn the boats?
In a new blog article published at Digital Leaders, Professor Alan Brown asks whether the recent acceleration in digital transformation is a significant permanent step forward or a…