In 1978, I moved away from bureaucracy. I did so because I was disillusioned with the top-down system and wanted to live away from it. …
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
Tag: Management
results
(click here to filter)
I was a little late last night and nearly missed the Nesta event in London to launch the report they wrote with Osca. But I’m…
Let me start with a story, which has to be a little obscure to protect the innocent. The government has a Voluntary Repatriation Scheme for…
The collapse of government contractor Carillion will spread havoc. Sympathy for its creditors may not be overwhelming. But the impact on those who depended on…
They were surprised. And I was surprised that they were surprised. I was giving a talk to some senior business people and pointed out that…
Yet another miserable journey home with Southern Rail (power supply problems again, or so they say), I found myself thinking about Britain’s brand new aircraft…
A symptom of decreasing community participation in public service planning and management is the increasing size of public service organisations. It has now reached a…
Some years ago, I was in the room when a consulting firm was pitching a mega-project to the president of research and development at a…
The story so far. Govia Thameslink won the franchise to run the Southern rail franchise and took over in early 2015. Thanks to their failure…
In the UK, what happens locally on the ground is not much to do with local political control at the time, either locally or nationally. …
Those who believe in the decentralisation of public services do so because it is thought that better decisions will be made the closer service users…
Things look different from bottom up. So when we think about the future, we have to do so fully conscious of the assumptions we make…
- « Previous
- 1
- 2