Digital Services

In this podcast from April 2020, Vanguard’s Managing Director, John Seddon, outlines how command and control thinking sub-optimises digital services, describing two big mistakes that are commonly made when ‘going digital’.

John outlines three steps for a better way to use technology with existing services or when designing new services from scratch; creating value for customers, improving service, and reducing costs,

System archetypes

Vanguard’s Richard Davis introduces the idea that predominant characteristics of a system create an archetype. Understanding a system’s archetype can help identify the key points of leverage and, therefore, what to study to understand the capability of the system and why it is like that.