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 […]
Tales from three disruption “sherpas”
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 […]
We have to talk about the Web
“Web Science” is probably an unfamiliar phrase for some. Obscure even. As someone once remarked, the only problem with the phrase “Web Sciences” is the word “web”, the word “science” and the way the two words are used together. Which is a bit tricky, because the conversation which those two words signify is becoming more […]
