I’m Scott Logic’s Public Sector Director. I’ve spent over 20 years advising the Public Sector on how technology can transform their services, and I joined Scott Logic in October 2024 to head up our public sector business.
Delivery
Transformation is often framed as a time‑bound programme, but in this post, I argue that lasting change depends on how work is structured, funded and led in practice. Along the way, I draw lessons from the Bank of England’s core ledger replacement programme and make the case for funding long‑term capability, not one‑off projects.
Delivery
‘Digital transformation’ is used so widely that it risks meaning everything and nothing. In this blog, I explore why how we define transformation shapes how it’s funded and delivered, why treating it as separate from business as usual creates costly distortions, and how a project‑led, cost‑cutting mindset often undermines the very change organisations are trying to achieve.
Artificial Intelligence
Last week, we had the privilege of speaking at HM Treasury at the ID25 (Innovation Day) event on the crucial topic of balancing AI innovation with sustainability. In this post, we share the points we raised in that presentation on the current "brute force" reality of GenAI models, and the potential for the UK to lead the way in developing AI systems that are both powerful and sustainable.
Delivery
Increasingly, I’m seeing that government procurement is not giving suppliers the chance to demonstrate their ability to deliver meaningful social value. In this blog, I explore what government procurement sets out to achieve, what is actually happening, and how things could be improved if the government simply heeded its own guidance.