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DIGIT Lab's monthly newsletter provides regular updates of DIGIT Lab wide-ranging activities, upcoming events and successes of our researchers. The DIGIT Lab is an EPSRC Next Stage Digital Economy Research Centre delivering a 5-year research programme backed by £12.4M in funding.

In this month's edition of the DIGIT Lab Newsletter, there's a seminar to watch on demand, plus we let you know about an upcoming workshop on the future of design, uncover some intriguing findings on technostress and provide an activity newsfeed of our recent engagements.

Watch on demand

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How Do Industries Change: Mapping Digital Transformation

In this DIGIT Lab seminar, Professor Gina Neff shares an insight into her latest upcoming book: How Do Industries Change. Professor Neff’s award-winning research allows her to map technological transformation through three mechanisms: futuring, negotiating shared practices, and rewriting institutions. Gina’s perspective brings agency and work back to stories of disruption.

Gina Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Technology & Society at the University of Oxford. Her books include Venture Labor (MIT Press 2012), Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press 2022).

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Future of Design Workshop

Design Descriptions: Disruptive Technologies in Future Design & Development Systems

📅 Sunday 3 July, 9 – 12.30

Recent advances in disruptive technologies are creating new opportunities for the design world. For example, the availability of big data is increasing, Industry 4.0 is changing the nature of manufacturing systems and so the designed products that can be produced, and moves towards automation of knowledge-based activities is highlighting a need for understanding of human behaviour.

The full potential of these opportunities for engineering design, architecture and engineering design & development systems are not fully realised and their impact on design descriptions and design & development processes is not entirely clear.

The goal of this workshop is to explore state-of-the-art thinking, and requirements for new computational methods, processes and practices in design description.

The workshop is part of DCC'22, co-chaired by Alison McKay (University of Leeds) and DIGIT Lab's Deputy Director, Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen (University of Exeter) .

This Month's Highlight

Latest blog post reveals intriguing findings

By Dimitrios Batolas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Technostress holds back digital transformation. Can growth mindset fix this?

New technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, and many others, have sparked considerable interest – from both researchers and practitioners. These technologies have implications not only for organisations but also for the society, economy, and the environment. This was further accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, as companies across the industry had to transform the way they operated overnight. Indeed, a McKinsey global survey of executives suggests that the COVID-19 outbreak accelerated an adoption of digitisation and automation technologies which otherwise would have taken years to implement.While the benefits of this transformation cannot be disputed in terms of efficiency, productivity, and flexibility, the constant use of information and communications technologies (ICT) is also putting pressure on employees…

Activity Newsfeed

Details of DIGIT Lab's engagement events are available on demand and include:

📽 Getting things done with data in government: Watch or listen to this Institute for Government event, at which Mark Thompson presented a Business School perspective

💬 The Digital Leadership Gap: Alan Brown offers an in-depth commentary on the UK Government’s Digital Strategy

👮 Public Services: Shift focus towards more radical platform-enabled business model redesign, says Mark Thompson, presenting at Digital Leaders Week

🇮🇹 Conference: Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE 2022, Venice, Hybrid Format): Roger Maull, Zena Wood and Phil Godsiff chaired; Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen, Dimitrios Batolas and Nikolai Kazantsev presented (photos on our website)

🟡 Management workshop from Organisations, Artefacts and Practices: exploring posthumanist ontologies and metaphysics in the context of Management & Organization Studies. Mark Thompson chaired, co-presented and joined a panel discussion!

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