Or what are collective intelligence assemblies and why are they the game we must learn to play so we can play the game? Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11098.html Geoff Mulgan, Princeton University Press 2017 “Better together” increasingly goes the mantra when the conversation turns to solving big problems whose characteristics combine […]
The digital transformation of government: half a conversation
This piece from Matthew Cain, who is the Head of Digital at the London borough of Hackney in the UK, is well worth a read. I’m inclined to simply copy and paste the whole thing because it says most of the things I, and perhaps many others, tend to think about digital transformation in government. […]
Ask not…pianos and the immortal human spirit: reflections on democratic renewal
Now, if this spirit is of the essence of democracy, can we rightly say that we have understood or practised it. For, if man is to be adjusted to man, if we are to live together in mutual amity and justice, if we are to be dignified without being proud or overbearing, we must be […]
The 21st century public servant: take on talent II
I wrote a piece recently looking at an OECD report that proffered six attributes of future public servants in a world that is becoming more connected, complex and (sometimes) confusing. These were the six -iteration, data literacy, user centricity, curiosity, storytelling and (a personal favourite) insurgency. This time I’m looking at a couple of linked […]
More on the talent question: skills for the future public service
If there is a talent crisis in the public sector, which I think there is and about which I wrote something in a recent post you can find here, the question is begged what is the mix of talent that the public service of the future needs? It turns out that there’s a fair bit […]
Do bureaucrats care? A take on talent in the public sector
I’ve been interested in the question of talent in the public sector for some time. I think there’s something of a talent crisis across the sector, not because there isn’t enough of it or the right mix (although there are real challenges on both those fronts I suspect), but because I suspect we don’t use […]
