Are we still talking about digital transformation?

From Smart Cities and Smart Citizens to Smart Societies — the story so far…

Over the past few years, in my role leading digital transformation and enterprise architecture for Bristol City Council, I worked to bring the smart city innovations run by our Bristol Futures team…

Changing the local government technology market

A new digital architecture for councils of the future

Local Government as a Platform — beyond “delivering services digitally”

Between 2014–15 the “Government as a Platform” (GaaP) concept — what it is and how we create it — was the subject of a lot of Twitter traffic and generated blog posts from a number of people in the local…

Technology is the answer…but what was the question?

It is always worthwhile heading back to Cedric Price’s famous quote when thinking about building smart societies and what cities are striving to achieve in this space. Huawei UK announced last week that Bristol has become the UK’s leading…

Can we still talk about Digital Transformation?

Words matter. How many times have you been in a conversation where somebody says “it’s just semantics…” to dismiss the point you’re trying to make? Frustrating isn’t it, because semantics = “meaning” and that’s pretty important.

How could UK local government become platform organisations?