In July 2012, Paul Omerod spoke at the RSA on network effects. He described this as positive linking – but not because the effects of networks are all positive. His contention is that – especially in economics – we tend to be subject to (but over look) network effects. Better attention to this trend could lead to a revolution in our…
Part of the way in which partnerships intervene in the ecology of our public service systems is as a check on fragmented conceptions of need and how to respond to it. In a paper presented at ISPSO in 1986, in New York, Jim Krantz and Tom Gilmore describe: ‘… the current distinction between leadership and management (which) often results in…
Steve Broome and Rebecca Daddow discuss a Whole Person Recovery (RSA Journal Winter issue 2010) – under which the results of the activity are paid for, rather than the condition-treatment. In this case, the focus is people who need help with drug and alcohol addictions. The person with the condition is centrally involved in choosing how their own condition will be…
quote from the Observer 22.04.2012, Rachel Cooke: “I received an email recently from PR agency Freud Communications. The email urged me to watch on YouTube a short film about the Labour peer and strategist Philip Gould, who died of esophageal cancer in November 2011. The film, When I Die, was made in the last fortnight of Gould’s life. “Philip was committed to…
Below the radar of public debate, the coalition government in the UK has published a white paper which visualises a state in which all public services are ‘personalised’ (with the exception of security, justice, and defence). I have mind-mapped the main ideas in Open Public Services White Paper Mind Map This policy position reflects the dilemmas discussed in our post on…
This article was taken from the June 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. As a Silicon Valley-based networker, my job is grabbing other people’s attention on Twitter and Facebook so that I can become ubiquitous. I…
Charles Edquist: ‘Economists around the world are unanimous in believing that innovation is the most important element in the creation of welfare’ (quoted in the Idea Book)
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