Alison Davis is an experienced chief information officer working in the life sciences industry and has been named on the 2016 and 2017 UK CIO 100 lists and awarded women in IT awards CIO of the Year 2018.
Increasing diversity in the workplace can drive “real value” across every industry, so when should we start to inspire everyone? As early as possible.
"I have real difficulty defining the role of the CIO as I don't believe such a role actually exists".
Testing and adopting appropriate new systems at The Francis Crick Institute - IT, HR or other - is just as rigorous a process as the biological research its scientists conduct.
"One scientist was interested in buying a new microscope capable fo generating 5 peta bytes of data a week, which would have filled up our total storage in two weeks flat."
Delayed constructions, mergers, on-boarding an extra 1,300 scientists - The Francis Crick Institute's conception was a challenge. And that was only the beginning.
