Rich Corbridge

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

2025, the review of the year…

Its always fun to begin this blog entry, 13 years I have been doing this now. I start in January and throw ‘meaningful’ things on to a word document then when I get to the last quarter of the year… Read More

Cuba – A Travelogue

With comments ranging from why to wow we readied ourselves for an adventure, an experience and ultimately a holiday. We had opened the Gold List edition of Conde Nast in January and read a piece about Havana and a hotel… Read More

The Change Relapse….

A change relapse is happening across so many industries right now when it comes to digital. The debate had been won, or so we thought, digital and the role of digital leader to lead change and transformation had been had… Read More

Why is reputation so important, and should it be?

  Every so often do you find yourself questioning why certain things mean so much to you and whether its ok the amount of ‘index’ you place on these things. I have had this pause for thought over the last… Read More

Hot Topics Studio

Given the opportunity to spend 3 days with over 50 digital leaders from acrossEurope and the UK, leaders from Freshworks and the always insightful Hot Topicsteam I jumped at the chance.With a focus on the vitality of our leadership and… Read More

The OS of a CIO in 2025

As the Chief Information Officer role continues to try to find ways to move away fromthe ‘old school’ IT implications and truly becomes the leader of change,transformation, and all things that we call digital the debate still rages as to… Read More

Too much acorn and not enough oak

Many moons ago a brilliant friend and awesome colleague of mine uttered the words‘too much acorn and not enough oak’ and it stuck with me, it stuck with me because Ikeep thinking how it applies to the work we do… Read More

2024 – Review of the year

This annual blog is 12 years old today, every year for the last 12 years I have come here to capture what happened over the last 365 days, what we enjoyed, what we did and more and more how that… Read More

Take stock, what is next… (and what is repeatable from ‘before’)

Being in a new role allows for a moment of reinvention based on reflections from what has gone before. As I get into week four in my new role and as we build up for that end-of-year “look back” moment… Read More

Digital First Mindset

Whilst I was at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), we were on a mission tofoster an environment that empowered our people to adopt a digital-first mindset. Itwas (and is) a journey that is not just about embracing technology,… Read More

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