At Cambridge Digital Innovation we recognise that education is a core activity to not only share knowledge but also provide opportunities to bring together a range of groups to generate new understandings of digital innovation. We develop practicums to build knowledge, create and attend events to share knowledge and host challenges to stretch imaginations.
Cambridge Ecosystem Practicums
We deliver practicums, which combine talks on the latest academic research and industry trends, state of the art knowledge from innovative organisations in the Cambridge Silicon Fen ecosystem, and design sprint projects. We tailor these practicums to our partners’ requirements with the aim of delivering knowledge and sharing insights on digital innovation from across our Cambridge ecosystem.
Lectures and seminars
Engaged Scholarship Lecture series
Professor Michael Barrett, Cambridge Judge Business School, Professor Sarah Jack, Stockholm School of Economics, and Mats Agervi, CEO of Combient
CDI initiated and runs the Engaged Scholarship Lecture series which aims to encourage researchers to focus on impactful research.
Breakfast roundtable at the Stockholm School of Economics
Professor Michael Barrett, Cambridge Judge Business School, Professor Sarah Jack, Stockholm School of Economics, and Mats Agervi, CEO of Combient
September 2018
CDI co-hosted a breakfast roundtable on the topic of Digital Transformation at the Stockholm School of Economics, Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Center for Innovative and Sustainable Business Development. Professor Michael Barrett joined Professor Sarah Jack and Mats Agervi, CEO of Combient, to discuss the key questions:
- What is a common framework for establishing a baseline for digital transformation?
- How do you organise and lead digital transformation in your company?
- How do you scale up your digital transformation efforts?
When new meets old: institutionalisation in a digital economy
Professor Emeritus Bob Hinings, Alberta School of Business, and Dr Thomas Gegenhuber, Leuphana University Lüneburg
May 2018
The widespread application of digital technologies changes how actors organise, such as how to pursue strategy, to bring about novel innovations or to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. The term ‘digital transformation’ captures this notion of change – something new seeks to insert itself into the existing social fabric. Taking an institutional perspective, we understand digital transformation as the combined effects of several digital innovations bringing about novel actors, structures, practices, values, and beliefs that change, threaten, replace or complement existing rules of the game within organisations and fields. In this project, we are interested in the interplay of new and existing institutional arrangements
Bob Hinings is a Fellow of Cambridge Digital Innovation, an Honorary Research Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, and a Professor Emeritus in the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta.
Dr Thomas Gegenhuber is assistant professor for digital transformation at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.