Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken slams government decision to shift data policy-making from GDS to DCMS
'Moving it to the Department of Fun, run by a minister who was forced to change the data privacy on his own app doesn't make sense,' says Bracken
Key GDS functions 'transferred' from Cabinet Office to DCMS following digital turf war
Evisceration of Government Digital Service confirmed over Easter by Prime Minister's statement to Parliament
Businesses are using 'digital transformation' purely for marketing purposes, says Co-Op CDO Mike Bracken
Co-op Group digital head Mike Bracken gives Computing his view of what digital transformation really is
Digital bogged down by bureaucracy: an interview with Tom Loosemore formerly of Government Digital Service (GDS)
'There are so many vested interests in this country feeding off the friction that the bureaucracy makes for itself'
Government Digital Service in need of a refresh, says DVLA CTO Iain Patterson
Patterson was sad to see Mike Bracken leave GDS but believes that there is now an opportunity for new people, new roles and new approaches
Mike Bracken reunited with former GDS colleagues at Co-Operative Group
The Co-Op hires the team that Bracken credits with creating the Government Digital Service
Chief data officers 'need to play an offensive role' and industry needs more of them, says Teradata governance chief
'It's hard to think of anyone in a company who doesn't use data' says Charles Griffith
Government's deputy CTO Magnus Falk is latest to leave GDS
Like several others, Falk leaves government without securing a new job, suggesting a degree of unhappiness with GDS direction
Another day, another departure at GDS - transformation director Beaven leaves
Yet another senior member of GDS resigns, after Mike Bracken's departure to the Co-Operative Group
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Mike Bracken's successor revealed as three key members of GDS quit
GDS COO Stephen Foreshew-Cain will lead the organisation, but three of the most significant architects at GDS have chosen to follow Bracken out the exit door
Why the government can still succeed in digital without Mike Bracken
It is an unenviable task to be Bracken's replacement, but whoever takes the mantle will have a foundation to work with that Bracken himself never received, says Sooraj Shah
