I have just been reading the recent Home Affairs Committee report: New Landscape of Policing. There is an interesting chapter on Collaboration and in particular I was struck by the use of the word collaboration itself.
A view on the PASC Report on Change in Government and why just “doing stuff” will come into its own
I have just finished reading the Public Administration Select Committee’s (PASC) recent report on Change in Government (pdf). Undoubtedly much effort has gone into it, with contributions from many wise people; but I can’t help feeling that it misses something very important, which makes the thrust of its conclusions …er …wrong.
This thing is Complexity…
Everywhere things are getting more complex. I believe that (probably some time ago) we have crossed a sort of Rubicon to a place where the conventional wisdom of government is a lot less reliable. It’s as though the laws of physics have changed. […]
Presentation to the UK Defence Academy: Creating cultures that cope with complexity
This post is a summary of a talk I did on complexity and culture in the context of government IT at the Design of Information Systems Symposium at the Defence Academy at Shrivenham on 14 Sep 11 (see abstract). It’s intended as a reference for those who attended; it does not have the details of some of the examples that I talked about on the day and may well lack context if you weren’t there…
Mark Foden is speaking at the Defence Academy symposium on culture management
Some FG news…
I will be speaking at the Shrivenham Defence Academy symposium – Culture Management: The Key to Effective Organisations? – on 14 September 2011. It’s great that an organisation like the Defence Academy has chosen to hold an event on such a crucial topic. Details of my session…
