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A Roadmap to AI and Digital Transformation in Water (or Elsewhere)

Digital technology has transformed transportation, healthcare, education, energy, and entertainment. Those industries provide valuable lessons for the digital transformation we are now witnessing in the water sector, where we work. However, the realities of this…

We Need To Rethink ESG To Ensure Access to Water and Sanitation for All

The focus ESG frameworks place on climate change runs the risk that we fail to solve the problem of ensuring access to water and sanitation for all. We need to change the way ESG frameworks…

As We Come Out of COVID, We Need Innovation To Help Us Reach the Global Goals for 2030

COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the slow progress of achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Mass adoption of digital technologies, and increased engagement from the private sector, have the potential to reignite action. Our…

The Role of the Business in Solving “Wicked Problems”

As the public sector worldwide continues to struggle to solve economic, environmental, and social challenges, the private sector is now being called upon to fill the gap. Yet this falls outside of the role that…

The Human Side of Industrial Cyber-Physical Transformation: Three Considerations and a Recommendation

There are many elements to the Internet of Things, and in a broader sense, cyber-physical transformation. It can be complicated. From sensors to security, communications choices to power sources, from governance to the curation of…

Why I Am Doubling Down on Digital for Water

There are and will continue to be, no shortage of lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. What sticks and transforms society, business and the public sector is up to us. We can focus on attempting to…