Ben Holliday

This is my blog where I’ve been writing for 20 years. You will find posts about digital transformation, design and leadership. You can also find me on Bluesky and LinkedIn. In 2022 I published a book for TPXimpact, Multiplied.

Digital Transformation

Service pattern people

Reflections on an event for Services Week 2025 and how organisations are working with service patterns. Read more

Improving productivity and the need for service design

My thoughts on UK government plans to increase productivity using AI and digital transformation. Read more

Permacrisis

5 years on from COVID-19 and how digital transformation became about a permacrisis. Read more

Anchor points

How the fixed points in our work determine how we make progress. Read more

AI content consequences

Exploring the use cases and consequences of AI content, including what this means for brands and trust. Read more

Why aren’t the potholes fixed yet?

Better understanding the real problem of fixing the UK roads and how technology and innovation might help. Read more

The messy middle

Why change is hard. Exploring how it involves understanding people and team dynamics to try and unlock progress and new ways of doing things. Read more

Small bets for digital transformation

Exploring optionally and how small bets can be a radical option to make progress. Read more

Test and learn in UK government

A response to Pat McFadden’s ‘test and learn’ speech. Read more

My principles for simplicity

What simplicity means to me… why it’s important, and why it’s hard to achieve. Read more

Content design as a multiplier for LLMs and GenAI

The importance of investment in content design and why Generative AI will only be as good as what it works from. Read more

Bets on digital transformation for 2024

Exploring my predictions for the coming year in digital transformation. Read more

x24

Reflections on my Multiplied book, 2 years on. Read more

Testing assumptions and new normals for policymaking

What we take for granted and challenging our intellectual prejudices, as described by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe in The Blunders of our Government. Read more

2 years later and a book announcement

The need to move to stay healthy

How organisations need to move to stay healthy. Read more

Digital as physical objects

How can we open up our public resources, data, and physical spaces in more meaningful and useful ways using technology? Read more