Presentations for The Oxford Group
Recently, our Professor Alan Brown presented a series of short lectures for The Oxford Group. These videos are now available online, covering a range of topics from sustainable recovery to digital transformation. Five dilemmas Risk, trust, value Digital Transformation directions Sustainable recovery
Call for proposals for DEAS Network+ Covid-19 Charity/Voluntary Sector Projects 2020
The DEAS Network+ are inviting proposals for Covid-19 related Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) based research with the potential for rapid impact in the voluntary and charity sector. Proposals should be up to £5k (FEC) with projects lasting 6 months or less. Proposals may come…
The World Turned Upside Down: the future of digital innovation research post-COVID-19
Thursday 25 June 2020, 1–5pm Register now Register via Eventbrite (opens new tab) In 2020 the world turned upside down: one particular consequence has been the most marked shift to digital forms of social interaction we are likely to see in our lifetimes. This is…
LocalGovCamp Lockdown
LocalGovCamp – an ‘unconference’ for the local service community with an emphasis on digital enablement – has been going for over a decade, and offers an informal and mutually-supportive environment for a variety of stakeholders in the sector to come together, showcase and discuss ideas,…
INDEX welcomes Professor Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen
We are delighted to announce that Professor Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen, an expert in product and engineering design, has joined INDEX as of April 2020. She joins from the Royal College of Art, where she was Head of Design Products and a Prof. of Engineering Design. Professor…
Tech UK webinar – Community and public services post-COVID
Friday 17 April 2020, 12–1 pm Mark Thompson sits on the panel. Has the public health crisis helped re-create a sense of community and place? COVID-19 has made us connect with our neighbours and help out the most vulnerable in our communities. Whether checking in…
Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management
A paper on scaling the digital innovation of 3D printing across organisations by INDEX Lecturer Dr Stavros Polykarpou, co-authored with Professors Michael Barrett and Eivor Oborn, has won one of the Best Paper awards at the annual conference of the Academy of Management (OCIS Division, Vancouver, 2020). We’re absolutely delighted for…
Alan Brown on Learning Rewired podcast
This week our Professor Alan Brown builds on the impact of his latest book, “Delivering Digital Transformation”. He is the featured guest on Learning Rewired – a standout podcast from Headspring, the corporate learning and executive education joint venture funded by The Financial Times. In…
Next Generation Paper: future book technology
Wednesday 25 March 2020, 9.30am–2pm The British Library (The Knowledge Centre) Be the first to experience ‘Next Generation Paper’ and hear from the team behind the project. For more than two decades there have been predictions about the death of paper as a communications medium…
Big Data Analytics and the Future of Work: An Exclusive Seminar
Thursday 5 March, 9.30–11am We’re so excited that the brilliant Aleksi Aaltonen and Marta Stelmaszak Rosa (pictured) will present a seminar on their paper. Aleksi and Marta will speak about their paper, revealing surprising findings on Big Data, Analytics and the Rise of Con-figuration Work….
INDEX joins Behavioural Data Science Special Interest Group
We are delighted to have joined the Behavioural Data Science Special Interest Group (at the Alan Turing Insitute). The Group aims to understand human behaviour, to help achieve better economic and social outcomes. Our David Lopez is a research fellow. He brings his knowledge of…
Public Sector Innovation Conference
25 February 2020 One Whitehall Place, London Following the enormous success of the first Public Sector Innovation Conference, we returned to this important topic a year on and post the general election. In the intervening year we have seen an explosion of AI, the mainstreaming…