With thanks
This website brings together Alan K Fowler’s work, writing, D4 materials, use cases, presentations and reflections.
It exists to help people understand Alan’s work, learn about D4, and make contact about mentoring, presentations, training and Making Change Happen.
Alan K Fowler and D4
The ideas, professional history, D4 materials, use cases and publications referenced on this website are based on Alan K Fowler’s work.
D4 — Designing and Delivering Futures — is Alan’s philosophy, system and method for Making Change Happen. It was developed from his research, professional practice and long-standing interest in time, concurrent events, organisational change, value and future-state design.
Where D4 is described in simplified form, this has been done to make the ideas more accessible while preserving the substance of Alan’s thinking.
Publications and references
This website refers to Alan’s published and professional work, including:
Accelerating Business and IT Change
Alan K Fowler and Dennis Lock
Gower, 2006
Managing People in Programmes
Dennis Lock and Alan Fowler, with K. Moebus
In Gower Handbook of Project Management, 2nd edition
Routledge, 2016
Alan’s academic and professional papers on parallelism, commercial dynamic information systems, concurrency and episodes are also part of the intellectual background to D4.
Affiliations
Alan is an Associate of the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh.
Alan is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
References to these organisations acknowledge Alan’s association, fellowship and continuing interest in ideas, learning, futures and practical change.
Website branding, design, development and training
This website’s branding, structure, design, development and training were provided by:
CMYSZ — Charlie Myszkowski
https://cmysz.com
Charlie worked with Alan to shape the website’s visual identity, page structure, written content, D4 explanations, contact process and publishing workflow. He also provided training so Alan could manage key parts of the website himself, including editing pages and writing blog posts.
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Testimonials and recommendations
Some descriptions of Alan’s work are drawn from recommendations, testimonials and professional comments made by colleagues, collaborators and clients over the course of his career.
These are included to help visitors understand how Alan’s work has been experienced by others.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence tools were used by CMYSZ — Charlie Myszkowski to support drafting, structuring, editing and simplifying some website text.
AI was used as an assistant to the writing and development process, not as the source of Alan’s ideas.
Additional credits and acknowledgements
Alan may add further credits and acknowledgements here over time.
This may include people, organisations, publications, images, diagrams, resources, conversations or other materials that have contributed to the website or to the development and sharing of D4.
[Alan to add further acknowledgements here.]
Corrections
This website brings together a long history of work, writing, presentations and use cases.
If you notice an error, missing credit or something that should be corrected, please contact Alan through the contact page.