On Tuesday last week, I spent an hour with three clever and expert people talking with 100 + lawyers from around the world about the implications of the new formula which goes something like “data + digital = disruption.” [Note – the 100+ lawyers in the room I imagine were pretty smart and expert too, […]
Design, policy and democracy
This week I attended the OpenState event in Adelaide and ran a session exploring the relationship between design, policy and democracy. These are the slides I used to frame the conversation. The session was a bit of an experiment to test an idea that emerged from putting a few pieces of my professional life together […]
Blair on the public service
This is a great interview of Tony Blair about his formation as a politician, political thinker and especially his views about the role of the state (the State too can develop interests) and the role of the public service. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0902l3q “What I learnt about bureaucracy is that it is great about managing things but not […]
Place matters
I was the moderator for a one-day forum this week held by the newly re-established Institute of Public Administration Australia Queensland division about the important of place in tackling complex social disadvantage. These are my “headlines” from a day of energetic and wide-ranging conversations: 1 The thing that turns connected communities into flourishing places is […]
Enough with the digital, already…
I recently saw a link to an interesting new study about the impact of digital technology in the retail sector. The conclusion was that the future of retail is digital. Right. And wrong. I suspect the future of retail is retail, transformed, disrupted, reinvented and turned inside out by digital in just about every way […]
Market capitalism is broken
The book is all about market capitalism and how it’s broken. I haven’t read it, but I will. I’ll write about it later but here’s some extracts from an interview with its author, financial journalist Rana Faroohar: “I believe that the reason for that is that our system of market capitalism is broken. The capital […]
