Richard Corbridge
A CIO hooked on working with people to achieve the most for everyone he works with
Keeping it real, My IT dot to do
At high school it became a yearly tradition (to my mother’s happiness) that I received the pastoral award for my contribution towards caring for fellow students. When asked the popular question, ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’ my answer, though vague, always included the statement ‘to work with people.’ I do… Read More
Cirque Du CIO
It is widely acknowledged that there is a shortage of women in senior STEM roles across public and private sectors. Much has been written about how to engage with the next generation of IT leaders to encourage uptake of women into the tech industry, without many concrete ideas of what needs to change. Increasingly the… Read More
WiFi Enabled Cows and the Internet of Things
I really couldn’t decide whether to call this article ‘WiFi Enabled Cows’ or ‘Ubiquitous Computing’ so I went with both for the benefit of humour and technology… We stand on the verge of the so called ‘Internet of Things’, a world where smart, low powered, limited CPU and memory devices connect almost ‘anything’, including ‘living… Read More
NIHR Hub Migration Blog
Earlier this yeah I volunteered to project manage a migration project that would affect everybody within the Clinical Research Network (CRN). The project brief was simple, to migrate over 500 accounts from the traditionally deployed email solution to the new NIHR Hub built on the Google collaboration platform. Fairly straight forward I thought! Unknown unknowns… Read More
Rallying the troops – Communicating from the front line
Cpt. Nixon: What do you think I should write these parents, Dick? Because I don’t know how to tell them their kids never made it out of the goddamn plane.Richard Winters: You tell them what you always tell them: their sons died as heroes.Cpt. Nixon: [cynically] You really still believe that?Richard Winters: [pauses, considering] Yeah.… Read More
Guest Blog – The elegant solution
Where Does Improvement Begin? In February 2014, I was at the Lean Healthcare Awards, presenting as a finalist in the Lean Champion category when I was asked how I had started on my improvement journey? I suddenly remembered a chance conversation from the start of my career that had inspired me for more than 15… Read More
Guest Blog – And the problem is…
Richard Horton is a Service Delivery Manager at the NIHR CRN, he has responsibility for the service improvement of one of our major systems over the last 18 months, turning around a service described by some as the ‘rotten tomato’ service into one that the service board are now hugely proud of. When organisations look… Read More
Guest Blog – The Oracle Supermarket
Gareth Baxendale is the head of Technical Services at the NIHR CRN, he has a unique view as to the technology and solutions deployed in our organisation. He provides business ownership for the strategic infrastructure in our organisation and knows his onions! When you think of Oracle, the first thing you likely think of is… Read More
Guest Blog – Farming Business Intelligence: Fields of Possibility
Paul Maslowski is the Information Manager at a Comprehensive Local Research Network and a member of the virtual Business Intelligence Unit at the NIHR CRN. Paul has a unique view of data in the NHS and in particular in the research environment and has provided a guest blog this week that is well worth a… Read More
Guest Blog – Being an IT project manager is like…
Bryony Walsh is a project manager at the NIHR CRN, she has volunteered her perspective of what it is like to do this role in our organisation and how no day is an average day… My time as a Project manager at the NIHR CRN will always vary enormously depending on our current priorities. There… Read More