John MortimerPublic sector reform of local government and healthFrom the experience of the past decades we can now agree that reform of the public sector is an essential requirement and a priority. Based…May 10May 10
John MortimerHow can we work together across a service, as cross-functional collaborating teams?How can we break free from falling into the trap of silo departments working against each other, and empower staff to work together in a…Feb 20Feb 20
John MortimerThe growth of new innovation and transformation has to enabled by the dismantling of the oldThe idea that in order to transform, we have to remove the old — the old ways of working, structures, behaviours and norms that support…Jan 23Jan 23
John MortimerHow to Transform the public sector, and how not to do itThe jounrney of change in the public sector is Franky, difficult. How many of us are trying our best to help local and central gov to…Nov 3, 2023Nov 3, 2023
John MortimerHow to manage & design within organisations — Complexity made simpleComplexity made simple, to help us to manage and design organisations. An alternative to the Cynefin frameworkFeb 23, 20233Feb 23, 20233
John MortimerWhy can’t we move on from the old ways of understanding, managing and designing organisations?If there is one good question that keeps us busy thinking about, this is one of them:Dec 8, 20221Dec 8, 20221
John MortimerIn the UK public sector we have been working with Digital design for some time.However, transferring this to other public service has often simply been to copy the same principles and methods, without recognising that…Nov 25, 2022Nov 25, 2022
John MortimerTransactional and relational systemic servicesWe know that designing complex systemic person centred services fail unless we adapt and use methods that are suited to these…Oct 27, 2022Oct 27, 2022
John MortimerThe question we should all be askingAfter reading about another example demonstrating how we can design our public services differently:Sep 9, 2022Sep 9, 2022