Category: Thinking

1st Jun 2018 | Articles, Thinking

How will the UK’s energy infrastructure power the Smart Society of the future?

“With lightning’s danger, There runs the quick perspective of the future.” The Pylons, Stephen Spender Power is insidious, almost expected as a human right,… Read More

10th Mar 2018 | Articles, Thinking

Introducing to the stage: the voice

Have you ever stopped to wonder what would happen if you lost the ability to speak – to make sound? It happened to a friend… Read More

23rd Feb 2018 | Local Government, Thinking

Are we still talking about digital transformation?

In my last post on digital transformation, I argued that ‘digital’ and ‘transformation’ mean specific, different things to ‘IT’ and ‘change’. But does it… Read More

1st Feb 2018 | Local Government, Thinking

How could UK local government become platform organisations?

Gavin Beckett, Chief Innovation & Research Officer at Perform Green, looks at how local government can adapt to change and become platform organisations. I previously… Read More

15th Jan 2018 | Thinking

Changing the local government technology market

We need to talk about the state of the local government technology market. Last year saw a new push to highlight the importance of “… Read More

20th Nov 2017 | Thinking

Smart City Expo World Congress 2017 – An Assault on the Senses

Insights from Perform Green’s team at Smart City Expo World Congress 2017, words from Gavin Beckett   At first impressions Smart City Expo… Read More

17th Nov 2017 | Local Government, Thinking

Local Government as a Platform – beyond delivering digital services

Local Government as a Platform? As part of our continued efforts to discuss topics that are relevant and required to push the boundaries of how… Read More

9th Nov 2017 | Thinking

Can we still talk about Digital Transformation?

Gavin Beckett, Chief Innovation & Research Officer at Perform Green talks about why Digital Transformation is important as a term and how it can… Read More

6th Nov 2017 | Articles, Thinking

From Smart Cities to Smart Societies – The Story so Far

Gavin Beckett has joined Perform Green as Chief Innovation & Research Officer and will be creating a series of content that we… Read More

1st Feb 2017 | Client work, News, Thinking

Agoria Smart City Forum #everyonesacitizen

On Thursday 26th January 2017, Barney Smith was Key Note Speaker at the Agoria Smart City Forum in Brussels. Barney gave a 45-minute presentation on… Read More