Stories over statistics
There's a banner outside a local school that makes me want to scream, quietly.
Notes
I write, infrequently, about organisations, change, and the gap between how things work and how they could. Mostly to make sense of what I see. Enjoy!
Neoliberal org design and how to fight it
Magdalen laundries, intent and fighting for your organisation
The housing crisis isn’t really about housing
It’s a value capture problem.
Offer Hunters
A tech observation in retail
Memory Making
I think a lot about making memories.
The tribe that forgot
Organisational memory and the critical mass of shared knowledge
Short term mechanics
The mechanics of government reinforce short term thinking, and it sucks
Depth over distance
Can you really solve for something if you don’t at least understand the basics?
QR codes and the adjacent possible
The decade the camera becomes the platform.
Postal worker’s shorts and missing context
To understand culture, you need to understand context.
Small pieces, loosely joined – big org, small change
There’s an approach to technology, software, engineering, product that calls for lots of little bits of utility to be joined loosely together to make something ‘a better whole’.
25 for 365
Some things to remember for the next trip around the sun.
Behind the veil
You’re eventually going to see the cracks in the facade.
Your governance sucks
Governance is something that gets exaggerated. By organisations, consultancies, design agencies. You name it.
Value at a distance
Most of the time value at a distance is very subjective.
Outcome uknown
Taking a service oriented view vs an outcome oriented view of the world.
Gradually then suddenly
Continually taking care of the little things over time
Capability debt
Are we really building capability, or just adding capacity and leaving debt?
Architects or gardeners of change?
The tension when approaching change within organisations. Or any kind of change for that matter.
Slow agile
It might sound like an oxymoron, but ‘slow agile’ is a term I’ve landed on when trying to explain a concept we’re faced with often at FutureGov.