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Dominic Pride

Dominic Pride

Senior Partner – Strategy, Innovation & Governance

Experience and Skills

A senior strategist, Dominic is used to guiding business leaders through the challenges of adapting to today’s – and tomorrow’s – technologies.

As Digital Works Group’s Partner for Strategy and Innovation, he enables leaders and teams to build a clear picture of how organisations can evolve through accelerating technology and societal changes.

Dominic’s experience spans the early digitisation of media and the music industry, jumping feet-first into the internet to run portals and webcasts, progressing to managing digital music services for Vodafone, Orange, and Nokia and hyper-scaling music recognition service Shazam globally in the App Store boom.

Since 2014, he has turned his attention to healthcare, supporting strategy and innovation teams in major pharmaceutical and medical devices companies, deploying AI and practice change in clinical settings.

Dominic is dedicated to collaborative practice, and deeply involves clients and teams in partnership working to find the right answers. He is committed to moving “at the speed of digital” and shortening time to results.

Technical Skills

  • Business Strategy

  • Digital Strategy

  • Innovation

  • Partnership Development

  • Strategy Development

  • AI

Sectors

  • Health & Pharma

  • Management Consulting

  • Music

  • Start Up

  • Technology

  • Telecoms

  • Transport & Logistics

Key Achievements include:

  • Building digital-led insights, partnerships and scouting capability for global innovation division of a Top 20 pharma, enabling digital business model innovation

  • Providing board-level advisory and support for business leaders driving successful digital change at global and regional level across two Top 10 pharma companies

  • Leading a team deploying AI-led healthcare innovation in sites in Glasgow, which won two Health Services Journal awards

  • Advising UK and international high-growth med-tech and AI companies as part of GE Healthcare’s Edison Accelerator programme

  • Defining early instances of digital behaviour change for AstraZeneca’s seminal Digital Innovation Group

  • Creating a €4m music downloads business against organisational and technology challenges at Orange / France Telecom

  • Scaling the Shazam music application across multiple app store launches during a time of hypergrowth

  • Building a consultancy applying agile principles and early AI tools to reduce time to generate strategic insights

Dominic Can Help You With:

  • Choosing where to play: digital tech produces limitless opportunities. Dominic supports decisions by framing clear choices around tech and people

  • Deciding what to do: Strategy is worthless without action. He bridges the gap between deciding and doing – at speed

  • Bridging to a plan: Once decisions are made, they need to be implemented. He works in lockstep with operational teams

  • Enabling Innovation: creating strategies and frameworks relevant to each situation

  • Assessing Maturity: applying his Digital Maturity Index certification to build consensus for transformation

  • Advisory and Mentorship: walking side-by-side with leaders on their digital journey

Some of Dominic’s Clients & Experience: