emercolemaninForward-FirstJoin Our Smart City Innovation Testbed help shape the future of work.I’ve written lots in the past about the idea of the “smart city”, back in 2014, I was talking about the need to strip away complexity to…Oct 12, 2020Oct 12, 2020
emercolemaninTransportAPI Managed Services for Transport DataInnovating in Transport Data in a time of COVID-19TransportAPI has worked closely with First Group for a number of years being its Managed Service provider of choice for transport data. We…Jul 3, 20201Jul 3, 20201
emercolemaninForward-FirstNew call Innovation Co-Lab and old lessons learnedWe’ve written before about how we pivoted in the middle of our last accelerator programme with GCHQ and The Landing MediaCityUK. We…Jun 24, 2020Jun 24, 2020
emercolemaninForward-FirstSocial Distancing Technolgy And A New Approach To Scaling.We were delighted to include Tended in our first @UPAccelerator cohort in Manchester in partnership with @TheLandingMCUK. Back then, in…May 11, 20201May 11, 20201
emercolemanLeading When Change Is The New NormalIn 2013 I gave a talk at the Eduserv symposium called How to Lead When Change is the New Normal and followed it up with a piece for…Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
emercolemaninForward-FirstLanding in Accelerator Land with GCHQ and UPOver the past three years since I’ve moved to Manchester, there’s been an explosion of growth in the tech sector here. We’ve seen a huge…Nov 15, 20191Nov 15, 20191
emercolemanHyperlinks beat Hierarchy #everytimeWhat better way to leave the lovely The Federation than to be reminded of The Cluetrain Manifesto: and thanks to @maynards for that. I…Apr 12, 20191Apr 12, 20191
emercolemanUpscale stories from the frontline in UK TechDisclaimer: I received a free copy of the latest book from Tech Nation asking if I would take a photograph of myself with the book and…Nov 27, 2018Nov 27, 2018
emercolemanLooking for New England (What will that England Be?)Billy Bragg has always been a part of who I am. I first saw him perform live in the early eighties in Ireland if memory serves me it was…Oct 22, 2018Oct 22, 2018
emercolemanThe IT Not the IOT (Internet Thing not Internet OF ThingsBy definition I’m not a digital native I’m a digital immigrant. But I’ve been of the internet as long as I can remember. Mary McKenna and I…Aug 21, 2018Aug 21, 2018