Interview with Gerald Midgley

Interview with Gerald Midgley by Dr David Somekh DS:  Gerald, pleased to be speaking to you again. Can you tell us what’s going on in your current work that you find especially exciting? GM: I think the really interesting thing right now is where we are in terms of the sudden realization that systems thinking…

Defining Digital

Defining ‘digital’ (courtesy of Advisory group member Ales Bourek): Progress is a result of the joint interaction of people, processes, power and tools The source of “power” has changed only four times in history (manpower, horsepower, steam, electric power). Every new power needed the modification of tools, processes and behaviour of people to improve productivity.…

‘Why Doctors hate their computers?’

Blog by David Goldberg At the end of last year, Dr Atul Gawande wrote an article in the Medical Journal ‘Annals of Medicine’ which caused sufficiently interest to be reprinted in the New Yorker magazine. The link to the whole article is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers Essentially this is a thought piece about the benefits and is…