Interesting work by the Police on standard taxonomies and controlled lists, but how does it relate to what NPEP was doing and what local government has done?
Monthly Archives: March 2010
HPC outsource
No wonder I haven’t heard anything from HPC recently. They are being outsourced to the private sector. The tender is an interesting read, and it seems to be the natural route to making the collaborative procurement hubs more commercial. Whether…
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Posted in Health
Trialogue Wellderly Goldfish bowl facilitated conversation Tonality Webinar Under-capacitated Clienting Disbenefits
Dear lord, who invented these? I think calling them a banned list is a little harsh: maybe to be avoided? That said, I have on occasion struggled with an opposite to benefits (mainly because it is so woolly as a…
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Westminster salaries
Despite it most likely being a pre-election salvo, I’m very keen on wider publication of salaries. I think the bizarre UK obsession with obfuscating what we earn (even between friends) is partly to blame for all sorts of discrimination and…
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Posted in Local government
MoJ consulting spend
So PWC rents car parks to the Ministry of Justice. Lovely stuff.
Posted in Central government
Where else can we use checklists?
Checklists in surgery should be mandated given the extraordinary error improvements they bring. The interesting question is where else checklist thinking can be used.
Posted in eGovernment
Alternative models for the company
The hierarchical organisation doesn’t need to be that way. Some thinking on the issue from Disney, Schwartz and Husband.
Posted in Uncategorized
DfT consultancy spend
Nothing out of the ordinary there, although the shared services overspend is conveniently not there.
Posted in Central government
The value of consultancy
I can see that a subset of consulting assignments might be able to say: “the return was x * fees”, but this is not the norm for projects I have been involved in. This makes the methodology the MCA uses…
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Using a schema to make stories stick
Thanks to Anecdote for this video from John Medina explaining schema. Summary: frame your discussion with a concise and easy to understand schema. Schema
Posted in Engagement