Books

Platformland: An Anatomy of Next-Generation Public Services

£18.99
ByRichard Pope

This book describes the types of interaction we should expect from the next generation of public services, the digital platforms and infrastructure they will be built with, and the public sector design values needed to make them a reality. Including 30 illustrated design patterns, 10 strategic interventions, and global examples of emerging patterns in digital government.

Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AI: A Handbook for Digital Leaders

£18.99
ByAlan Brown

Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AI is specifically designed for busy professionals, leaders and decision makers. It is organized to allow you to gain valuable insights quickly and on demand. Above all, the content is grounded in real-world experience and practical applications within the context of digital transformation, ensuring its relevance to everyone who is embarking on a digital journey. Each topic concludes with thought-provoking questions and actionable steps to guide your personal exploration of AI and its implications.

Digital Bricks and Mortar: Transforming the Property Market

£24.95
ByJohn Reynolds

This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of digital property and mortgage transactions. It offers a nuanced understanding of the transformative forces that are shaping the digital property market, and it provides a stark warning to market incumbents on the need to evolve their business models, their technology and their cybersecurity capabilities.

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

£22.50
ByDavid Birch, Victoria Richardson

The book sets out the potential for financial services in metaverses and the ‘always-on’ immersive internet, beginning with a look at the technologies needed to make these metaverses useful for business. It describes the ways in which new markets will function and the digital assets that will be exchanged in transactions between online identities.

Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

£14.99
ByPete Dyson, Rory Sutherland

This book maps out how to design better transport. Engineers measure success by speed and efficiency – but these are not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We choose how to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety – and many other factors that engineering equations don’t capture at all.

Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery

£14.99
ByAndrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken, Tom Loosemore

This revised, expanded second edition of Digital Transformation at Scale is a guide to building a digital institution. It explains how a growing band of reformers in businesses and governments around the world have helped their organizations pivot to this new way of working, and what lessons others can learn from their experience.

Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere? (revised edition)

£9.99
ByChristian Wolmar

Christian Wolmar argues that autonomous cars are the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Even if the many technical difficulties that stand in the way of achieving a driverless future can be surmounted, autonomous cars are not the best way to address the problems of congestion and pollution caused by our long obsession with the private car.

Britain’s Cities, Britain’s Future

£9.99
ByMike Emmerich

Why did Britain’s cities, once the engines of the industrial revolution, decline so severely? What needs to be done if our cities are once again to be the drivers of our economy? This book answers these questions, looking at the lessons of the last two hundred years.

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