Services:Do you need someone who can help tell your story for you? Who can pull together all the things you’ve done in a coherent, accessible form? Need to highlight the impact you’ve had? I can help you develop and deliver content strategies, and I write magazines and articles to tell your story to the right audiences. Read more
Over the last decade I've developed and delivered over €15M of European projects from Like, Bling, and Smart Cities covering innovation, e-services, e-government, change management, and capacity development. See my project portfolio and find out how I can help you with proposal development and project delivery. Read more
I build innovation programmes and provide comprehensive innovation support to organisations looking to change. Over the last 15 years’ I’ve set up and delivered more than £50M of large-scale innovation programmes in the UK and Europe. I work at the intersection of data, innovation, organisational/process change, and service delivery. Read more
I build frameworks for project and program management, monitoring, and reporting. Let me use my 15 years’ experience setting up and delivering more than £50M worth of large-scale innovation programs in the UK and Europe to help you deliver your projects and programs. Read more
I’ve extensive experience developing and supporting funding proposals. I have developed and delivered over €15M of funded project proposals to UK and EU funders, and have also supported organisations run the development of successful funding applications worth an additional €25M. Read more
I have extensive experience working in the Smart Cities area. I spent 3 years leading the international research network that supported the Smart Cities Project, and have spent most of this decade working on e-government and innovation programmes that explore how to use data more efficiently and effectively. Read more
I provide a wide range of different types of programme support to clients. KPIs and programme structures KPIs (key performance indicators) are key to the management of projects and programmes. Read more
I develop and build management and reporting frameworks that use your key performance indicators (KPIs) to enable easy and efficient programme and project management, monitoring, and reporting. Read more
Project results:
Like! is a €4.2M collaborative project that I set up for Gemeente Groningen and 9 other partners in 2016 to stimulate the demand for innovation in the public sector and to deliver innovative solutions that improved e-government and local public service delivery.
OpeningUp is a €3.7M international collaboration that opened up new opportunities for businesses and governments to develop transformative services by pivoting to use social media channels to deliver services, and by adopting open data to better target and deliver services.
I have extensive experience working on Smart Cities - with a particular emphasis on accelerating innovation and the adoption of new technologies and new ways of working.
Articles, case studies and resources:
As part of the £1M Cancer Innovation Challenge, Product Forge is running a three day long open data event to use synthetic data to develop new ways to work with cancer data in Scotland.
OpeningUp looked at how governments could use social media to deliver better services, and how to leverage the potential of open data to deliver better targeted and more effective services.
On February 28th 2024 I’ll be talking on a panel organised by Fluido on recombinant management – re-thinking how platforms, people and processes work.
Speak Up is the 4th Interreg project I’ve developed. 12 partners across 6 countries will work to build better ways for citizens and governments to work together.
LIKE! supported the development of local ‘innovation cultures’ in cities across Europe. Our content strategy pulled together the findings and key lessons learned into a set of 4 magazines. Learn why we took this approach
With a focus on making content accessible to a wide audience, the magazines covered key themes and showcased the value of international collaborations within the project.
I developed the ‘LIKE Cycle’ as an iterative model for capacity development and innovation that builds upon everything we’ve learned delivering the LIKE! project. The LIKE Cycle is a both a pathway for individual and organisational skills development, and a roadmap for service innovation and development.
LIKE’s Smarter Services work developed new ways of working with citizens and service users to use data and information to complement efforts to co-design better services. There were three themes: 1) Data for Smarter services, 2) Local services, and 3) Channel and content strategies
LIKE! has been developing new ways for cities and communities to use data – to design and deliver better services, and to make better policy decisions for communities.
The ‘Creating Digital DNA’ work in LIKE! has focused on 3 areas: 1) Digital dashboards, 2) Local data for local services, and 3) the Internet of things (IoT).
Learn how BLING (Blockchain in Government) plans to accelerate and de-risk the development and deployment of blockchain-enabled e-services in the North Sea Region of Europe.
BLING – BLockchain in Government – is a €5M collaboration of 13 organisations – governments, cities and universities – who are exploring how governments can use blockchain to enable the next generation of smart services.
Key lessons in how to structure a high-risk project that keeps funders happy and give you flexibility in managing innovation programmes.
Key lessons in how to structure a high-risk project that keeps funders happy and give you flexibility in managing innovation programmes.