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…6 min read·May 10, 2024----
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…11 min read·Feb 20, 2024----
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…3 min read·Jan 23, 2024----
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…2 min read·Nov 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 framework20 min read·Feb 23, 2023--3--3
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:7 min read·Dec 8, 2022--1--1
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…2 min read·Nov 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…5 min read·Oct 27, 2022----
John MortimerThe question we should all be askingAfter reading about another example demonstrating how we can design our public services differently:4 min read·Sep 9, 2022----
John MortimerManagement, Leadership in the modern complex era we work in todayOne of the reflection on how to deal with change, is that change is less about a change initiative, and more about how we work. We are…4 min read·Jun 27, 2022----