My weekly posts Talking Data: Insights on Using Data for Transformation My #career has been shaped by experiences tackling inefficiencies and improving effectiveness — with early lessons from optimising youth development programmes to improving public sector advice services. These experiences taught me the power of ‘seeing the system’, and the importance of frontline (or rather customer/citizen) data in … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #158 →

Join the conversation here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_publicsector-systems-innovation-activity-7267145115352055808-oTli?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop I'm really pleased that we at The Public Service Transformation Academy will be working with Systems Innovation to support the SI Public Sector Conference: Systems Innovation in Government, in London on 14 February 2025. It's organised by Si Governance Hub and Si London Hub.  I'll be hosting a themed session … Continue reading How can the public sector become brilliant at systems innovation?  →

My weekly posts How do you think more widely, with your hair on fire? These bigger questions are vital for innovation, and necessary if we’re ever going to get out of the pressures. To think on a bigger stage, we need to ask bigger questions. How do you find the time, the energy the space to do … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #157 →

Join the conversation on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_leadership-complexity-procurement-activity-7264552028591296513-g51Y How do you think more widely, with your hair on fire? It’s probably the leadership challenge of our time. Today, I was due to speak at the Local Government Procurement Expo Personal circumstances (complexity!) meant I had to change plans last-minute, and I’m very grateful to m’colleague Andrew Humphreys … Continue reading How do you think more widely, with your hair on fire? →

My weekly posts Inviting people into the wilderness — why change is about community, not control Change is often framed as a clear path with a set goal. But as Peter Block says, ‘all projects with a clear specification, good funding and the ambition to scale are doomed to failure’. Why? Join the conversation on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_innovation-leadership-change-activity-7261999423763705856-8AS5 Courses and events … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #156 →

‘All projects with a clear specification, good funding and the ambition to scale are doomed to failure’. Why?Join the conversation on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_innovation-leadership-change-activity-7261999423763705856-8AS5 Change is often framed as a clear path with a set goal. But as Peter Block says, ‘all projects with a clear specification, good funding and the ambition to scale are … Continue reading Inviting people into the wilderness – why change is about community, not control →

My weekly posts Anomie, three tribes, and the #futureofwork How will the three tribes in the #futureofwork finally adapt to virtual, hybrid, or modern office working?  Read the full post here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_anomie-three-tribes-and-the-future-of-work-activity-7259491149508145152-pcQj Courses and events Contract Management Development Programme, Cohort Four is launching in January 2025 The programme is an opportunity for those involved in contract management to … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #155 →

Join the discussion on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_anomie-three-tribes-and-the-future-of-work-activity-7259491149508145152-pcQj This is my 400th ‘intentional’ LinkedIn post. (You can see my messy list of the other 399 here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tt_4OBwvj-amux9zSU23hB87TeQna7TlJQkYt_D8EuY/edit?usp=sharing ) I started during the lockdown days of the pandemic and I’m going to use this to talk about what’s changed and what hasn’t changed — and the #futureofwork. Despite all the … Continue reading Anomie, three tribes, and the #futureofwork →

My weekly posts Friends reported he’d been talking about differentiation and integration again I was asked to speak at a mini-symposia of the International Systems Sciences Society — so no pressure, then! I talked about the positive and negative dynamics of differentiation and integration when people get organised together. Here are twelve points I think people might find … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #154 →