Digital transformation isn’t just about choosing the right technologies. It’s about understanding the needs and capabilities of your organisation, developing a culture of curiosity and innovation and adopting an agile mindset to achieve your goal.
Success is about culture and culture is about people. Succeeding in today’s environment is about building the right team, embracing diversity as a core strength, nurturing talent and empowering your people to achieve their potential.
Many organisations are finding that in today’s environment, business models that have seen them through the past 50 years no longer work. Successful business development depends on understanding where and how you create value, for whom, and how this can translate into long-term sustainability.
Transformation and impact don’t happen by themselves. You need to know how to develop an effective data-driven strategy that combines clarity of purpose with sustained delivery and that treats ongoing disruptive change as an opportunity, not a threat.
Contact Nick to talk about how he can help you unlock the potential of your organisation.
Leadership for changing times
Nick Poole is an exceptional leader with more than 20 year's experience of successful digital transformation and change in the culture and knowledge sectors.
Nick has built an international profile and reputation, both as Chair of Wikimedia UK (the UK Chapter of the global Wikipedia movement) and as an expert adviser on new technologies, digital transformation and culture change for Governments, NGO's , funding agencies and leading culture-sector brands.
Hopkins Van Mil has worked with Nick in various ways over many years and we have been thoroughly impressed with his knowledge, skills, expertise and diplomacy in the creative and cultural sectors both in the UK and internationally. I recommended Nick whole-heartedly as a strategic thinker with a great facility for leading and managing projects and teams. Nick is an inspiring and creative social entrepreneur – do work with him if you get the opportunity
Nick is an exceptional talent. He combines a remarkable subject knowledge with a keen strategic mind and a gift for clarity and elegance of expression. He is highly innovative but never at the expense of pragmatism. Nick is a pleasure to work with and I have no hesitation in recommending others to work with him as well.
Nick puts so much energy into his work. He combines a sharp analytic mind with a strong strategic sense to get results. Nick is capable of reducing complexity into the essence and communicating this through simple language.
Reading the excellent post by Andy Tattersall, departing Chair of the CILIP Multimedia and IT Special Interest Group, I am struck not just by the transformation of our ‘digital landscape’ over the past 10 years, but how clearly it demonstrates that technology no longer moves in ‘generations’ or ‘hype curves’ but as an ongoing process Read more about New technology? No problem![…]
This is one of a series of re-posts from blogs I wrote between 2006-2012 since the site they’re on is about to be archived. This was originally published for the Collections Trust (http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk). In case I haven’t already made it abundantly clear – I love museums, libraries and archives. I think that investing in professional Read more about Culture must always be a Commons[…]
There is a slide I use in most of my talks about the library and information profession that asserts that we are mid-way through a profound period of transition. Despite the continuity of values and ethics, we are moving away from a well-known, well-established ‘framework’ for the management and delivery of library and information services Read more about Connecting research and practice in the Information Profession[…]
Regular readers may be aware that my organisation, CILIP, has recently announced a UK-wide inquiry into the role of Information Professionals in protecting and promoting user privacy in an increasingly connected world. As part of this, I have been giving some thought to how best to define a functional model of the dynamics at play. Read more about Information Professionals and privacy – a model[…]
For good or ill, our public libraries are intrinsically connected to the Local Authorities that fund and coordinate them. The challenges faced by libraries are less about a direct assault on libraries themselves and more a question of collateral damage arising from the twin policies of devolution and austerity. This being the case, the financial Read more about Assessing Local Authority budgets[…]
I’ve made a few moves during the course of my career which have involved assessing the strength of organisations and the opportunities that lie ahead of them, so I though it would be useful to capture some of the key elements that are useful to consider:
Read more about Assessing an organisation
This blog is cross-posted from the Collections Trust blog
Written by: Nick Poole, CEO, Collections Trust
In case I haven’t already made it abundantly clear – I love museums, libraries and archives. I think that investing in professional communities who bring together and protect our shared heritage and make it available for use and enjoyment is one of the most important marks of an enlightened society. The future, after all, is made of everything that came before it, and our job as a profession is to defend the universal and inalienable principle that people must be free to benefit from their heritage. Read more about Why Culture must always be a Commons
Some time ago now, I had the opportunity to go for dinner with two Baronesses. The conversation got round to the challenges of advocating for the arts, museums and libraries. “If you had to choose”, I asked, “between influence and evidence, which would you choose”. Both replied instantly and decisively, “Influence, of course. It doesn’t Read more about Influence or evidence?[…]
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