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Greg Smith

Partner

Head of Digital Problem Solving

United Kingdom

Greg helps organizations solve their intractable problems using disruptive digital technologies and ways of working

Greg Smith

Areas of Focus

Education

University of Leicester
BSc (Hons), Biological Sciences

Past Experience

Atos Consulting
Partner, Global Head of IT Strategy & Transformation, Chief Knowledge Officer (UK Consulting)
Yodel
Chief Information Officer
Capgemini
Consulting CIO
Kingfisher
Senior roles at Kingfisher’s property division (Chartwell Land) and entertainment distribution and category management business (Entertainment UK)

Greg Smith

Greg is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based out of our London office, and leader of Digital Problem Solving practice.

Greg focuses on how emerging digital technologies and associated ways of working can be harnessed to drive the transformation of the business, either to breakthrough problems or to seize new opportunities. He believes that the technology patterns and approaches that have been used by businesses in the past are no longer appropriate to the challenges they now face and that new approaches will have to be adopted if the full potential of the “digital revolution” is to be realized.

Over a 25 year+ career in technology, Greg has worked within businesses as an IT leader, and through consulting organizations as a strategic advisor and intractable problem solver to clients across a wide range of sectors. 

Additionally, he has led innovative programs covering IT and Digital strategy, IT operating model transformation, customer strategy, business operating model redesign and the IT interventions required to effectively enable mergers and demergers.
 

Winning the war for digital talent
Winning the war for digital talent
Michael Papadopoulos, Michael Majster, Olivier Pilot, Alexey Pankov, Greg Smith
Businesses across the world are facing a shortage of professional talent and expertise in digital and IT skills and capabilities. For example, a 2021 survey suggested that 76 percent of IT decision-makers worldwide faced critical skills gaps in their departments, an increase of 145 percent since 2016.[1]
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Travel & transportation
Act now for full digital transformation of air traffic control
Francesco Marsella, Greg Smith, Andrea Visentin
Leveraging COVID-19 crisis for more efficient, sustainable, and effective business models for ANSPs.
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Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”
Greg Smith
We are constantly bombarded with the message that we are living through a period of unprecedented change; that technology is rewriting the rule book across all industries; that any organization that fails to fully master technology will become commoditized, obsolete, or extinct; and that the only possible solution to these challenges is to implement the latest technological miracle cure.
Find out more

Greg Smith

Greg is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based out of our London office, and leader of Digital Problem Solving practice.

Greg focuses on how emerging digital technologies and associated ways of working can be harnessed to drive the transformation of the business, either to breakthrough problems or to seize new opportunities. He believes that the technology patterns and approaches that have been used by businesses in the past are no longer appropriate to the challenges they now face and that new approaches will have to be adopted if the full potential of the “digital revolution” is to be realized.

Over a 25 year+ career in technology, Greg has worked within businesses as an IT leader, and through consulting organizations as a strategic advisor and intractable problem solver to clients across a wide range of sectors. 

Additionally, he has led innovative programs covering IT and Digital strategy, IT operating model transformation, customer strategy, business operating model redesign and the IT interventions required to effectively enable mergers and demergers.
 

Winning the war for digital talent
Winning the war for digital talent
Michael Papadopoulos, Michael Majster, Olivier Pilot, Alexey Pankov, Greg Smith
Businesses across the world are facing a shortage of professional talent and expertise in digital and IT skills and capabilities. For example, a 2021 survey suggested that 76 percent of IT decision-makers worldwide faced critical skills gaps in their departments, an increase of 145 percent since 2016.[1]
Find out more
Travel & transportation
Act now for full digital transformation of air traffic control
Francesco Marsella, Greg Smith, Andrea Visentin
Leveraging COVID-19 crisis for more efficient, sustainable, and effective business models for ANSPs.
Find out more
Moving from “Best Practice” to “Next Practice”
Greg Smith
We are constantly bombarded with the message that we are living through a period of unprecedented change; that technology is rewriting the rule book across all industries; that any organization that fails to fully master technology will become commoditized, obsolete, or extinct; and that the only possible solution to these challenges is to implement the latest technological miracle cure.
Find out more

More About Greg
  • University of Leicester
    BSc (Hons), Biological Sciences
  • Atos Consulting
    Partner, Global Head of IT Strategy & Transformation, Chief Knowledge Officer (UK Consulting)
  • Yodel
    Chief Information Officer
  • Capgemini
    Consulting CIO
  • Kingfisher
    Senior roles at Kingfisher’s property division (Chartwell Land) and entertainment distribution and category management business (Entertainment UK)