An online notebook
Today I came across two useful videos featuring Mark O’Neil – a CIO in central government and the guy that heads up the government skunkworks – talking about his work. They can be found via the UKauthorITy site: Skunkworks: How can it help you? Is Skunkworks a game-changer? I wrote a bit about skunkworks and … Keep reading
On my recent two posts on bringing the idea of skunkworks to local government, several people made the extremely reasonable point that I probably wasn’t really talking about skunkworks at all. Steph said in the comments: …it seems to me that we’re at risk of hanging more onto the ‘skunkworks’ peg than it’s fair to … Keep reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Engagement advice – Mick reports on a good list of engagement tips via @govloop Our Society – "Our Society aims to connect people who are genuinely concerned to move power into communities." Can you help? – Personal and Self Directed Learning tool – Carl needs … Keep reading
So my post about whether local government needs skunk works got quite a reaction both in the comments and on Twitter, so it’s obviously something people are interested in discussing. How can we move the debate forward? Let me sketch some ideas on how it might work – feel free to comment, criticise, abuse me … Keep reading
Simon Dickson has been doing his best to keep us up to date with the government skunkworks, the project to form a tight group of innovators in central government to work on new ideas. If you’re new to the idea of a skunkworks, here’s the Wikipedia page. Basically, a skunkworks is widely used in business, … Keep reading