http://smallcreativeideas.blogspot.com – news blog about ideas making a difference
A news blog to collect ideas from around the world - of where small changes have been made to the public & third sector services that have resulted in big benefits. I am looking for ‘bite sized’ ideas that have helped your organisation deliver more to your local communities, or helped make work even more efficient, or just saved some money or staff/officer time. And the idea could be applied elsewhere reasonably easily and is probably not widely known elsewhere.
http://jonharveyassociates.blogspot.com – thoughts on change & leadership
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THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2009 It seems that, suddenly, it is becoming possible - perhaps even fashionable - to challenge the whole culture and edifice of target setting in the public services. I can only say 'hooray'! For far too long, the public services have been slaves to aiming at the 'shadows on the wall' rather than doing what they should and want to be doing which is achieving robust social outcomes for the people they serve. An excellent article by John Seddon appeared in the Guardian 2 days ago:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/07/steve-bundred-public-service and it is well worth a read. The comments too are worth reading as well - especially one by Redshrink who makes a connection to the commercialisation and commodification of public services. (That is next battle ground in my opinion.) I have also added below an article I wrote six years ago.... (see blog for full post)
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Jon Harvey
jon@jonharveyassociates.co.uk
