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ITS NOT THE SIZE OF THE WAND, ITS THE WIZARD WHO WAVES IT
(Ken Usman-Smith)
I have not embraced Harry Potter as the new way forward. It will not emerge as the fourth way after we have used Labours Third Way and dabbled in The Force\! Its about measuring happiness, because thats REALLY what its all ...
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best, value, caa, oba, rochdale
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A Dinner Party for Dr Deming
(Peter Kawalek)
Recently I had reason to revisit some of the Quality literature including, of course, the late W. Deming's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.EdwardsDeming wellregarded 'Principles of Transformation.' It all reads like so much commonsense. There seems to be nothing extraordinary about ...
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deming, quality
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BIG
(Ken Usman-Smith)
trouble is in organisations, we always want to think big. We want to transform local authorities and we think that the big bang is best. And as ICT implementations in Central Government has shown, we can create a very big disaster as inertia ...
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efficiency, media
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SCANNING FOR GOLD! EFFICIENCY IN UK COUNCILS PAPER
(Ken Usman-Smith)
first draft of a proposed white paper for an ICT company I have written on the use of ICT and EDRMS to transform efficiencies in our Council Services. Be kind, but be honest, does it help or hinder? INTRODUCTION Knowledge is of two kinds: We ...
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efficeincy, edrms, workflow, rochdale, savings, e-government
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MANCHESTER INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 2.0
(Ken Usman-Smith)
Association of Greater Manchester Authorities are once more taking on the mantle of the industrial pioneers who made the region what it is. They once drove our city region to produce the blueprints for the modern world in everything from trains, canals, factories and computing and the huge ...
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innovation, manchester, climate, change, revolution
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CASH COW
(Ken Usman-Smith)
Some of you may work for employers that have realised that ICT is expensive and adds a growing carbon cost to the organisation, to manage all those servers on the top floor where the IT support team sit. Some of you may have started ...
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software, innovation
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CUTTING EDGE
(Ken Usman-Smith)
Radical Reengineering is gaining momentum. Silos are being pulled apart. The cost cutting axe is poised to fall. The savings to help your local Authority survive are being calculated up and down the Country. Will it be staff or services or something else. It may be slash ...
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radical, re-engineer, councils, government
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TRENCH WARFARE
(Ken Usman-Smith)
Government continues to harness the innovative ideas of frontline workers, public services will keep improving. This is what the head of the Civil Service said today. Sir Gus O'Donnell used a conference speech to launch 'Listening to the front line', the Government's response ...
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front, line
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UNCONFERENCING
(Ken Usman-Smith)
another brick in the wall between organisation and innovation that TALK has explored removing in its 'LONG MEETING' TALKLM:The TALK Long Meetings debates. This covers the concept of Digital Britains UNCONFERENCING http://digitalbritainunconference.wordpress.com/finalreport/ and its potential to change ...
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unconferencing, meetings, information, sharing
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A VERY LIMITED COMPANY
(Ken Usman-Smith)
What is ownership all about today? We have lived through the rise of 'shareholder value' and its created more firms owned by and accountable to stock markets. And that initially seemed to go well, shares iisued, pensions planned for, but the fiscal ...
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ownership, banking, crises
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