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Three Ways Organisations Kill Ideas (And How You Can Remove Them) | Paul Taylor
https://paulitaylor.com/2015/04/05/three-ways-organisations-kill-ideas-and-how-you-can-remove-them
Three Ways Organisations Kill Ideas (And How You Can Remove Them). Many organisations , without realising it , act as inhibitors of innovation. Rules and protocols are put in place – often for very good reasons – that preserve the status quo. Over time, organisations develop a set of social norms – ‘the way we do things around here’ – that either promote creativity or quell it. It’s a chronic waste of knowledge that organisations must make it a priority to unlock. It might have been a bad idea. It mi...
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12 Months of Failure: Lessons Learned in Year One of Bromford Lab | Paul Taylor
https://paulitaylor.com/2015/06/18/12-months-of-failure-lessons-learned-in-year-one-of-bromford-lab
12 Months of Failure: Lessons Learned in Year One of Bromford Lab. Guest post by Tom Hartland. One year ago the Bromford Lab. Was established as a way of accelerating new ideas, driving innovation in the business and building our external networks. Failing fast’ was a founding principle, any idea was a good idea and our 12 week window to complete work was the target to aim for. It’s good to see that. We’ve failed to realise each of these ideals at least once. We’ve helped formulate ‘squads’. 8211; typica...
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How to Make Innovation Part of Everyone’s Job | Paul Taylor
https://paulitaylor.com/2015/02/10/how-to-make-innovation-part-of-everyones-job
How to Make Innovation Part of Everyone’s Job. The average colleague has seven ideas per day about how they could improve where they work. For our company that’s 9000 ideas per day. Or 3 million every year. But most of those ideas never catch fire. 8211; Bromford Lab. Tokyo, Japan 1936. 8211; Kiyoshi Ichimura , the son of a poor farming family , has an idea. Kiyoshi didn’t have any great privileges to speak of, but was ambitious and enterprising. Telford, England, 2015. There’s a sense of history a...
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Five Questions for Prospective Digital Leaders | Paul Taylor
https://paulitaylor.com/2015/05/19/five-questions-for-prospective-digital-leaders
Five Questions for Prospective Digital Leaders. Engaged leadership in the digital era means not chasing the latest apps and gadgets. Being an engaged leader in the digital era means knowing what your goals are and what tools to use to achieve them. It also means being brave and bold enough to step into the fray: listen to followers, share yourself with them, and engage them directly in new and amazing ways. –. In our headlong rush to tech for solutions we risk ignoring the root of our problems. The break...
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It’s Time for Us to Unleash the Hidden Power in Communities | Paul Taylor
https://paulitaylor.com/2015/02/04/its-time-for-us-to-unleash-the-hidden-power-in-communities
It’s Time for Us to Unleash the Hidden Power in Communities. 8220;It’s so tempting for those of us who provide services.support workers, housing providers, social workers, community workers, health visitors, GPsto see ourselves as the ones with the gifts. The ones with the solutions. The superheroes ready to fly in and save people. Maybe there is already a superhero living on their street”. 8211; John Wade. The typical story arc of the superhero is fairly predictable. This will be followed by. Were think...
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Best Practice, Benchmarking and the Race to Mediocrity | Paul Taylor
https://paulitaylor.com/2015/01/30/best-practice-benchmarking-and-the-race-to-mediocrity
Best Practice, Benchmarking and the Race to Mediocrity. We must be different. We must be lopsided. No more herdlike regression toward the mean we must find the things at which we’re great, and build on those –. A few years ago my organisation adopted a new way of working. We implemented it , with the help of consultants, as it had achieved glowing praise during a regulatory inspection at a similar organisation. It was held up as an example of that most intangible of things: best practice. Having found th...
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Lessons From a Year Spent on a Two Pizza Team | Paul Taylor
https://paulitaylor.com/2015/04/24/lessons-from-a-year-spent-working-on-a-two-pizza-team
Lessons From a Year Spent on a Two Pizza Team. Work alone. You’re going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you’re working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team – Steve Wozniak. In the early years of Amazon , as the company was in transition from fledgling startup to world-eating behemoth , managers held a corporate away day to consider their main challenges. No, communication is terrible! Said: “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month.”. Historically career progre...
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Are we ‘warehousing’ older people? – Alex Fox's Blog
https://alexfoxblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/care-homes-and-care-warehouses
Alex Fox's Blog. Are we ‘warehousing’ older people? April 22, 2015. April 20, 2015. A Daily Telegraph report. Based on recent care home research. Says that smaller care homes are being replaced by what it describes as large ‘care warehouses’ after a wave of closures. Smaller care homes are finding it increasingly hard to cope with cuts and don’t have the same economies of scale of larger operations, nor the property market investment strategies of the really big corporates. Abuse scandal, of CQC refusing...
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Devo Manc & Health | richardcaulfield
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Tales of a CCG Lay Member. Devo Manc & Health. March 2, 2015. There has been a mass outbreak of blogging since the BBC leaked the devolution of health budgets to Greater Manchester. As one might expect, a slightly mis-leading headline leads to blogs that are way off the mark but the quality of analysis has improved since more details became public. Like many of those who have written on the subject I am slightly cynical and have many questions, such as: how does this fit with a. When you look at the heal...
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Maybe the answer is just a little bit more? | richardcaulfield
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Tales of a CCG Lay Member. Maybe the answer is just a little bit more? April 15, 2015. Today I have attended one of our Board seminars. We call them seminars, but in truth they are a meeting where we have Board members and some CCG staff plus invited others, to look in detail at areas of work that need consideration. Perhaps we don’t need lots of clever pilots or huge innovation around all of this: perhaps we just need a little more: more nurses, more social workers (and other support in the community) e...
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