James has over 25 years experience of management roles within both the private and public sector. From the later 1990’s James has been involved in delivering major organisational change projects within the public sector before setting up his own management consultancy in 2004 (KRC Consulting). KRC Consulting operated largely within the criminal justice system, specifically around major government change programmes, to intergrate working practices across criminal justice agencies.
Meet James Fraser, Digiterre’s Director and Chief of Staff. James recently celebrated 10 years with the company. In this People Blog, we ask James to look back on his time with Digiterre, share some of the highlights of the past decade and reflect on his reasons for remaining loyal.
By: James Fraser
Category: Industry Insights/ News and EventsDate: 08/09/20
Technology plays a crucial role in business change in the public sector. Government is now more focused than ever on using data transformation to make better decisions and improve public services. Citizens increasingly expect the public sector to deliver a high quality digital experience similar to what they experience from commercial companies. But how do ...
By: James Fraser
Category: News and Events/ Tech InsightsDate: 21/08/20
Digiterre’s Public Sector Director, James Fraser has just been featured in Tech UK. He discusses how to improve data management for better decision making and the need for continual digital transformation to stay ahead of the competition and deal with high pressure political demands.
By: James Fraser
Category: News and Events/ People BlogDate: 29/05/20
Public Sector Director Digiterre, James Fraser was a guest blog writer for techUK. James fraser talks about lifting the lid on data transformation and examines how best to apply data analytics in the public sector. Read the full blog here: https://bit.ly/3dfZHvx
By: James Fraser
Category: Industry Insights/ People BlogDate: 02/04/20
At the heart of digital transformation lies data, but to fully exploit its possibilities you need to develop the right skills for digital transformation which can be especially challenging for both SMEs and public sector bodies.
By: James Fraser
Category: News and Events/ Tech InsightsDate: 05/07/19
Some of the latest data stats for our 21st century lifestyles are truly staggering. There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created by us every day – and with the Internet of Things (IoT), it’s only going to go stratospheric! Over the last two years alone, 90 percent of the data in the world was generated. (Source: ...
By: James Fraser
Category: Industry Insights/ Tech InsightsDate: 28/06/19
What does AI mean for our public services? Whilst it won’t go as far as turning your MP into a robot (not yet anyway!), it’s gaining ground in various ways to make services more effective and efficient.
By: James Fraser
Category: Industry Insights/ Tech InsightsDate: 11/06/19
Since the UK Government announced its adoption of a ‘Cloud First’ policy for public sector IT, cloud computing developed a new momentum in government departments and local authorities.
By: James Fraser
Category: Industry Insights/ People BlogDate: 29/03/19
The 43 police forces in the UK face a multitude of challenges. Stressed out from massively reduced budgets – direct government funding is down 30% since 2010 – violent crime is growing again, not to mention rising levels of domestic violence.
The public sector should progress citizen engagement and online experiences in a visionary and transformative way, learning from major private sector platforms and pioneering wherever it can and wherever it’s cost-effective to do so. Easier said than done, for sure. However fears over cybersecurity can restrain such large-scale transformation programmes and in turn, limit ...
The ‘Agile’ methodology has swept across the landscape of customised software and digital development for huge numbers of organisations around the globe, gathering momentum especially over the last 15 to 20 years. It can best be described as ‘the ability to create and respond to change in order to succeed in an uncertain and turbulent environment’ (Source: ...
Digital transformation is one of those phrases that easily slips off the tongues of MDs and CEOs for pretty much any sort of business or public sector organisation. It gives the impression of ambition, achievement, success and change – or at least the ambition for great change. Perhaps it’s straight out of the ‘How To…’ ...