Category Informatics Leadership
We see the battle for talent globally and it’s no different for Grant Ecker, Chief Architect at WBA and Rich Corbridge, CIO at Boots who both acknowledge the criticality of building strong teams and the paradox that exists in finding, developing and retaining top talent.… Read More
Every CIO is striving for the professionalisation of IT in some way or another. In some cases, CIOs are doing it to make recruitment and retention easier; in other cases, it’s to position IT in the best possible way within… Read More
Rich Corbridge, CIO, Boots and Grant Ecker, Chief Architect, WBA discuss the skills needed to solve “the IT puzzle” Solving the puzzles of IT leadership In a recent Boots UK IT huddle between Grant Ecker, Chief Architect at WBA and Rich Corbridge, CIO… Read More
Grant and Rich work together to drive towards the future of technology for Boots and WBA, and they have done so for more than six months now. Given that they have only seen pandemic times since assuming their roles, it has… Read More
Organisational change, restructure of teams, development of new structures, org charts, words that fill me with dread and excitement in equal measure. In 2021 what is THE ideal structure of a function that is set up to deliver the foundations… Read More
I was reading a Pitchfork retrospective article about the seminal electronic band Boards of Canada the other day and a phrase came up, Avoiding the timely, they aim to achieve the timeless …and I fell in love with what it… Read More
The key resource in 2020 for the delivery of healthcare to populations around the world is… people, friends, colleagues; human beings that we need to work with day in and day out to keep ‘the show on the road’, and… Read More
“Imagine that the Clash had stayed around to be influenced by 3rd Bass, the Young Disciples and Marshall Jefferson. Or Soul II Soul had been inspired as much by Public Image Limited’s ‘Metal Box’ as Public Enemy or that the… Read More
Implementing technology in healthcare: change, adapt and keep moving forward! This is a blog I wrote in 2016 about the changes in digital health, technology and patient expectations, but after listening to some Bowie and Queen recently, I thought about… Read More
Being part of the CIO100 has meant something to me every year that I have taken part, this year I didn’t make the event itself and it looks like it was a roaring success from the photos on social media… Read More