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I’ve spent 30 years focused on agile approaches to business transformation, and the relationship between technology and business innovation in today’s rapidly-evolving digital economy.

I now teach and research in digital transformation topics, and consult with startups and established organizations in the public and private sector to help them figure out what’s going on, ask better questions, and learn quickly from their experiences.

Alan is a world-class academic in both teaching and mentoring. However, he is truly unique and exceptional by connecting his academic work with real-world examples from his work in industry.

-Ronald A. Crawford, Entrepreneur and Investor

Working with Alan has been one of my professional highlights in the last few years. He brings a great blend of expertise, creativity, passion, collaboration and humour to his work.

– Elvin Turner Author of “Be Less Zombie”

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The US Navy wants swarms of thousands of small drones

The new strategy for defence seems to be no more big things that take too long to build, cost too much, and are hard to reconfigure. Just lots…

France fines Clearview AI maximum possible for GDPR breaches

It seems that there are real financial consequences of collecting personal data without permission! This story about Clearview raises some important questions about how data is collected and…

Is Your Company Seizing Its Digital Value?

Interesting paper reinforcing the relationship between digital transformation and value creation. https://hbr.org/2022/10/is-your-company-seizing-its-digital-value There is a useful categorization of value into 3 broad areas: Value from customers Value from…

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State of AI Report 2022

Just released, the latest State of AI Report 2022. This is a very useful summary of trends and a goldmine of stats and charts about the current state…