Thanks to everyone who attended last Thursday’s briefing session. A video of the session and our one-pager on this topic can be downloaded here.

Uwe Buddrus discusses the current landscape of Digital Maturity Assessments and the possible benefits on a national and organisational basis.

Chris Mackie talks about the future of ALISS – a Local Information System for Scotland – including how he utilises cross-sector collaboration, centring the end user in all improvements, securing active participation from partner organisations and exploring new technology.

Uwe Buddrus shares his view on the complexities of benefit realisation measurement in digital maturity; which benefits to measure, how to standardise measurements and where to measure from.

Chris Mackie shares his experience of participanting in the External Stakeholder Project Group for the Digital Maturity Assessment and how he represented the third sector in the development of the assessment question set.

Marion Logan discusses the background to the current Scottish Government / COSLA Digital Maturity Assessment, how digital transformation has changed since 2019 against the backdrop of a global pandemic, using the DMA to measure investment and what she sees as the benefits to organisations.

While Capabilities improvements were seen across most participating areas, 2024 Readiness scores (dark green bubbles) were less consistent than in 2023 (light green bubbles). Some health and care systems/geographic areas (each represented by a bubble) progressed more rapidly than others.

Readiness sections saw consistent improvements, while gains within Capabilities varied. There was only negligible change to Infrastructure.  Updated assessments from organisations reveal advancements in nearly all facets of digital maturity, albeit these improvements are generally moderate.  Climate Emergency and Sustainability, along with Information Governance, emerge as noteworthy areas of improvement within the assessment themes.   Conversely, […]

The Festival of Transformation, a learning and knowledge sharing platform for digital transformation in healthcare and social care is now live! We’re excited to kick off this new resource with a number of live research briefings on topics like Management Systems, Productivity Software, Diagnostic Systems and Therapeutic Systems. Over the coming weeks, each briefing event […]

Awareness of the environmental impact of digital operations and digital solutions to managing organisations’ overall impact are beginning to emerge, although adoption is currently not consistent across Scotland. Our data shows that more organisations’ initial concerns were with travel reduction, and the amount of paper and energy their digital processes consume. Some have also turned […]