The thoughts, impressions & sometimes the ramblings of a digital leader

Author Richard Corbridge

Innovate and Entrepreneur – Conflation that shouldn’t happen…

Originally published via Horizon Business Innovation The point in which the IT industry began to conflate the words innovation and entrepreneur bothers me as a CIO in the public sector. On a regular basis public sector technology picks up negative… Read More

The Bright side…

First published as a blog article on in the Health Management Institute of Ireland Journal. One of the most critical parts that must be carefully considered when creating an eHealth fabric for any care delivery system is not the latest… Read More

Innovation Ireland…

Originally published by HIMSS Europe as a guest blog in December 2015. No more than any other business or service area supported by technology health needs innovation. Simply following the horizontal innovation path will not bring the type of different… Read More

Social and Cultural Review 2015

It’s that most wonderful time of year again, Christmas is done, and for the last three years I have looked forward to writing down the fun stuff that has added a bit of magic to everyday of the year. It… Read More

Investment in technology is an investment in health…

At the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) conference I was quoted as saying, ‘Investment in technology for health should not be seen as an investment in IT but an investment in the delivery and improvement of health care for… Read More

eHealth, the implementation elephant journey.

Originally published in Health Management Institute of Ireland The amazing work of Chip and Dan Heath in the book ‘Switch: How to change things when change is hard’ describes a series of analogies that reference organisational change. One of these… Read More

Whatever happened to BYOD?

The consumerisation of technology was to be solved by two mega trends: BYOD and gamification. If we could exploit these two things then every person in every organisation would become an IT super user overnight and we could even do… Read More

What makes a great IT professional?

Stereotypes are quite destructive things aren’t they? The IT Crowd would have you believe that the most important skill in an IT professional is their ability to treat ‘users’ with complete disdain and to deliver a witty one liner at… Read More

Transition to transformation to continued development.

So there we were, three lads at the back of Mr. Carter’s British History class, Richard H, Richard C (me) and Gary. This was going to be a two year support friendship to ensure we passed a GCSE that to… Read More

What should you never tell the CEO?

What does my boss never want to hear? Ian Cox, a prominent commentator on the role of the CIO recently published an open letter to all CEOs. The letter contains five pieces of advice every CEO should hear about the… Read More

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