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Within our blog we’ll be keeping you updated with all our latest news, industry and regional articles. For more information please click on the blog headline to read the full article.

Business Innovation Led by IT Professionals at BA

In our latest piece of best practice research with the Innovation Studio, BA kindly shared with us their experiences of leading IT-enabled business innovation. This is a company where business and IT strategies are very closely aligned. IT leaders and their teams are respected, and relied upon, for their ability to lead business innovation. You ...

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Learning from Leaders in Innovation

As part of our recent research project to discover how successful organisations innovate, we had the great privilege to interview Howard Smith of CSC. Howard has over 30 years of experience in the IT Industry and holds the role of CTO (Europe) at CSC – a global leader in providing technology enabled business solutions and ...

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Tech Development Studio Taking the Innovation Lead

Categories: Uncategorized | Date: 9th February 2012

IT experts in one UK business are taking a lead in IT-enabled Innovation. We had the great opportunity to work with this team as our clients and we helped them to develop their positioning and influencing strategy within the business. They have leveraged new innovations for customer groups around the world and are very much ...

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Digital Spark Innovating in the NHS

Categories: Human Factors, Innovation, News, North East England, Training Resources | Date: 6th February 2012

We’ve been privileged to work with Health Information innovators, Digital Spark. MD Michael Bell and his team have responded to a call to action from consultant stroke physicians and their clinical teams who have long since struggled to capture and use the time-critical patient data they need when making life-or-death decisions about patient treatment. Digital ...

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Alison Freer speaks at BCS Elite Leeds Event

Categories: CIO Development, IT Attention Deficit, Knowledge Work, Leadership of IT, News | Date: 6th February 2012

Alison Freer made a return visit to BCS Elite Leeds on 23rd March 2012 to deliver a seminar on the Leadership of IT-enabled Business Innovation, the challenges and opportunities for IT Leaders. You can view our slide pack by visiting our SlideShare page listed in the footer of our .
We were happy to be joined ...

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Brain Food: Thinking Digital Conference 2011

Like a Glastonbury of the Digital Media and Technology world, Thinking Digital Conference 2011 surpassed all previous events with a fantastic array of speakers, ideas, music and learning. Innovative, stimulating and relaxed in equal measure, TDC11 delivered on all counts.
As TDC11 ‘thinkers’ we were treated to an extensive and eclectic mix of thought leaders in ...

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IT Strategy Reviews in Demand to Enable Innovation

We are increasingly called upon to support clients’ IT Strategy reviews. Traditionally IT strategies followed business plans, but now more and more organisations are looking at how IT can enable innovation in their business strategies. At Lead and Transform we are working with clients in the transport, education and third sectors to take them through ...

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IT-enabled Business Innovation

Categories: CIO, Ideas and Innovation, Innovation, Leadership, News, Projects | Date: 18th May 2011

In these financially straightened times, lots of organisations are looking to their IT teams and CIOs to deliver business results through IT-enabled innovation.
We’re really excited to be involved in a pragmatic research programme that gets to the nub of what makes, or breaks, successful business innovation, and the part that IT leaders and their teams ...

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What’s ‘hot’ on your IT Agenda?

Categories: Uncategorized | Date: 25th March 2011

As spring dawns, and we enter a new phase of challenges and opportunities in the economy, we’re interested in what IT leaders are focused on right now.
In many of our current client projects, IT agendas are all about improving the productivity of expert staff and transforming business productivity through the better use of ...

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Business project opportunities at Durham Business School

Categories: News, Uncategorized | Date: 25th February 2011

My day job includes responsibility for the Full Time Masters Programmes (Business & Management) at Durham Business School. We’re looking for a few more organisations to offer project opportunities for small teams of Masters Students. We aim to advertise the next batch to students by 18th March and the work would take place between June ...

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