London, England, United Kingdom
Exploring the frontier of technology and innovation, I work with passionate advocates and skilled practitioners to merge emerging capabilities with business opportunities, fostering game-changing innovation. My goal is to create sustainable, game changing innovation that enables ideas to be turned into value more quickly. I work with people in business and technology to understand the details and nuances of the problems to be solved and across academia and industry to explore and discover different ways of solving them. I aim to synthesise the many perspectives and ideas into a more coherent whole that is actionable. Finding appropriate solutions often involves a mix of new ways of working, thinking differently about the problems, and identifying the different kinds of technology that apply to the different parts of the problem to resolve tensions and improve performance. There are lots of ways of tuning any solution and many ways to break a problem down into parts. Having an awareness of the options and the different approaches and technologies available helps create a balanced approach that avoids unnecessary complexity whilst fostering sufficient diversity to address the different aspects of the problem fully. There are always trade-offs so we may as well understand what they are and make them deliberately. In my experience, opportunity is created by recognising possibilities and matching them with our desires and capabilities, and those of our network. Understanding what motivates us, what we each have to offer, and the talents and resources we can each bring to bear is key to success in any endeavour, as is effective collaboration. Specialties: Innovation, analysis, strategy and planning, technology trends, scenario maps, impact analysis, root cause analysis, problem solving, perspective alignment, facilitation, coaching, change management, knowledge management, information architecture, enterprise solution architecture, benefits realisation
Discovery and evaluation of new technologies related to big-data, analytics, AI, machine learning, decision support systems, high performance computing, distributed computing and hybrid cloud. Working with leading-edge technology across the stack.
Chief Architect responsible for overseeing the end-to-end architecture of the Connected Car including Telematics and Infotainment, from on-car systems to cloud based platforms, smartphone apps, web portals, and services provided by third parties globally.
I lead the innovation management offering for BearingPoint in the UK. Innovation is fundamental to success in a competitive market where business excellence is so often under threat; sometimes requiring subtle changes in operating model, and at other times necessitating radical changes in business model as well as step-changes in enabling technology. Whether you call it innovation and formally recognise the process or not, any firm that is investing in improving its products and services is engaged in innovation.
I work with clients to help them innovate and create cultures and adopt techniques to develop innovation capability so they can create competitive advantage and deliver value to the market that results in sustainable growth. I develop and apply innovation tools and techniques to real-world client problems. Innovation involves investment and risk before any reward can be realised. Formalising innovation means it can be measured and managed to create and amplify success that drives growth whilst managing risk.
I ran BearingPoint's IT Strategy and Transformation practice in the UK. This included working with clients to enable them to exploit IT to realise their business vision, assessing and identifying innovation and improvement opportunities, and advising on strategy and IT organisational transformation decisions. I worked with global strategy and transformation leaders to develop offerings and capabilities to bring value to our clients, providing thought leadership and innovation in the application of business and technology solutions, and assuring vision and strategy can be realised through appropriate and pragmatic application of business and IT change.
Advised the Operations Director on how to transform their business to exploit the emerging digital market. This included reviewing and proposing a revised Enterprise Architecture, Organisation Design and Target Operating Model incorporating Enterprise Architecture Governance, Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, Strategic Relationship Management for suppliers and Enterprise Resource Management to meet the new more agile delivery demands of digital products and services. I assessed the information maturity of all major datasets as well as the IT Systems maturity across the majority of the IT estate and defined a transformation plan and technology roadmap. I conducted perspective alignment interviews across all major business areas to create a common view of the future state vision and get alignment on how each department could get there with minimum risk whilst exploiting the opportunities before the competitors and led a scenario planning options analysis activity to determine the best way forward for the enterprise. I delivered an IT Strategy, programme plan, and commercial model for progressing transformation of the business and IT estate to enable digitisation of their products and services.
Creation of an information strategy to enable more holistic and real-time analytics views onto a changing world. Analysis of IT platforms and tools, data taxonomy, and data flows.