An online notebook
An online notebook
Gavin Beckett – Harnessing the changing landscape of local government to create internet era organisations: Effective responses to complex, long-standing social challenges need to be co-designed and co-produced with people and community organisations that grow from the ground up. Modernā¦
Richard Pope ā Preventative healthcare: designing for the service loop: # – micropost 23148 Katherine Wastell ā Every organisation has some madness: If everyone spots the problems but no one takes responsibility, things will only get worse. Accountability is theā¦
Ash Mann – The discipline of focus, what makes a digital strategy work: Good digital strategies arenāt long documents or laundry lists. Theyāre about ruthless focus – choosing a clear direction and sticking to it, even if that means lettingā¦
Find and reuse digital service elements is a website put together by some folk at the Ministry of Justice that signposts the user to examples of publicly available guidance and patterns for digital work. Am not entirely sure what Iā¦
Building understanding of software markets in local government from the Local Digital team: Weāve also identified through roundtable discussions and feedback from partners that managing effective procurements and successfully exiting technology contracts is a challenge, particularly where internal capacity orā¦
This is the content of the ‘article’ element of the email newsletter I sent last week. Publishing here for posterity. 2025 has been a pretty tumultuous year in local government digital, largely due to the impact of the Localism billā¦
Giles Turnbull: The strategy is enquiry What Iām suggesting is a new approach for the times when thereās a perceived need for a document called a āstrategyā. It shouldnāt be a document full of āwe willā; it should be aā¦
Have sent out my first newsletter on Email Octopus. It’s a nice system to use. # – micropost 23038 From daunting to demystified: The evolution of Service Assessments in DBT. # – micropost 23039
Brentās Innovation Journey: Building a āBaseā for Local Government Innovation by Ryan Hamilton on the LOTI blog: At Brent, weāve been trying to rethink how we tackle problems in a way that makes āinnovationā not just a buzzword, but aā¦
AI in Adult Social Care – guidance for adult care providers on the use of AI. # – micropost 22995 Giles shares “examples and links about working in the open and agile communication”. # – micropost 22996 Ben Unsworth isā¦