My weekly posts
Is insight easy in #publichealth, but impact hard?
I keep coming back to what people can actually do with the understanding we develop together. Insight is becoming easier to produce; the harder work is changing authority, resources and arrangements through action, while keeping the learning alive when everyday pressures return. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_public-health-challenges-systems-insight-ugcPost-7515521963516280833-FmrA/
Legibility without destruction
I’ve been writing about ‘legibility without destruction’ how government can understand places without forcing them into simplified data returns that destroy what matters. Measures should remain connected to citizens, evidence, disagreement and hidden costs, with legibility working both ways so people can see, challenge and change where power sits.https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_rewiring-needs-government-to-understand-share-7515542999414591488-G81T/
Courses and events
Commissioning and Innovation: playing on a bigger stage
A practical three-day programme for commissioners working in complexity that helps commissioners, transformation leaders, and partners work more effectively across complex systems. It combines practical tools, public service examples, peer learning, facilitated exercises, and direct application to participants’ own challenges. Open for enquiries. https://link.redquadrant.com/CommissioningAndInnovation
Next National Commissioning Academy
We’re building our cohort for the next national commissioning academy – our flagship commissioning programme from the PSTA. Register your interest now for our November 2026 cohort: https://link.redquadrant.com/nextacademy25
smartCompass – our new AI-supported tool for AI for community-powered outcomes
Our new prototype smartCompass is a new, free tool to help commissioners, leaders, partners, and people working in public services see how their system is really working — and where to act next.Answer sixteen questions about a system you care about, and receive a personalised, AI-supported response by email. It helps you see strengths, blockers, patterns, and possible next moves. https://link.redquadrant.com/smartCompass
Compass v2 – comment on our new systems change tool
We’re now inviting comments on this beta new version of a systems change insight tool https://link.redquadrant.com/compassv2beta
Introducing the RedQuadrant Local Government Reorganisation hub
Local Government Reorganisation is coming fast. By April 2028, every new authority must be safe, legal, and fully operational. That means statutory officers secured, ICT cutovers rehearsed, services live, and residents experiencing seamless continuity. The RedQuadrant LGR Hub is the only model that guarantees readiness while embedding lasting capability. With a single accountable structure, governance at its core, and capability pillars across adults, children’s, SEND, ICT, finance, housing, and place, the Hub ensures no gaps, no surprises. Three outcomes, every time: Safe and legal on day one; Visible assurance and confidence in delivery; Future-ready capacity with transformation built in. Find out more now: https://www.redquadrant.com/lgrhub
Commissioning Compass: systems assessment for change
Our newly launched tool, the Commissioning Compass, helps you to assess your commissioning system and form an action plan for improvement. It’s available for free via our Teachable site – try it now! link.redquadrant.com/commissioningcompass
Things I shared on socials:
AI Agents Gone Wild, and the Dangers of Inference
Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/15/ai-agents-gone-wild-and-the-dangers-of-inference/
Modelling Prevention Policy Impacts on Local Authority-Funded Social Care Services in England: A System Dynamics Modelling Approach
Sarah Crouch et al. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/15/modelling-prevention-policy-impacts-on-local-authority-funded-social-care-services-in-england-a-system-dynamics-modelling-approach/
What’s in a name? From Norbert Wiener’s Teleology to Artificial Intelligence
Sean Manion. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/15/whats-in-a-name-from-norbert-wieners-teleology-to-artificial-intelligence/
The Strategy Dynamics Insights Library
Kim Warren. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/15/the-strategy-dynamics-insights-library/
Richard S O’Rourke – Two entropies, two cornerstones
Richard S O’Rourke. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/14/richard-s-orourke-two-entropies-two-cornerstones/
Unstable systems demand fast reflexes
Jacob Bayless. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/14/unstable-systems-demand-fast-reflexes/
42 | The Systemic Review – a publication of SCiO
SCiO. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/13/42-the-systemic-review-a-publication-of-scio/
Nonchaotic model reveals how predictability can emerge from seemingly unpredictable dynamics
Doing Serious Systems Thinking Means Getting Rid of Elephants, Icebergs and Leverage Points
Dr Mike C Jackson OBE. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/13/doing-serious-systems-thinking-means-getting-rid-of-elephants-icebergs-and-leverage-points-jackson-2026-on-linkedin/
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
Benjamin Riley. https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/12/our-minds-arent-equipped-to-handle-ai/
