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The crucial, often overlooked, ingredient for community-led innovation is permission. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfeRI

The overuse of metrics can get in the way of successful place-based working. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfgzH

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This “unfreezing” of bureaucracy during the COVID-19 pandemicallowed for more agile and experimental approaches to service delivery. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfjCw

The Missing Ingredient For Community-Led Innovation Is Permission ▸ lttr.ai/AfknK

When we empower communities, we're not just tackling local issues; we're also combating the widespread pessimism that can paralyse larger-scale change efforts. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfcCC

A company initially builds a structure to solve problems and grow, but there comes a tipping point where these once-helpful structures become a dead weight, signalling a slow decay Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfxO0

Transforming Public Services with Agile Principles ▸ lttr.ai/AfzfA

Applied outside of tech agile can usher in a fundamental shift from rigid, top-down planning to a dynamic, iterative, and, crucially, person-focused approach. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Afxqx

"One company (Microsoft) operates 90% of the software running Europe’s public services, from hospitals to energy grids" 🤔 buff.ly/hVeBqD1

Paul Taylor And, given the alternatives, also reinforces MMC's First Law of Corporate IT: the device in your pocket is always a minimum of five years ahead of the device on your desk.

MMC Paul Taylor Unless it’s the NHS then a minimum of 10 years. Wife’s computer at work runs Windows 7 which I think became unsupported in 2015?

Every time a new metric is added, organizations unknowingly sign up for a series of ongoing costs that can drain resources and consume valuable human capital. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AfcCF

Paul Taylor - … adding to the inflexibility of the system and to the armoury of the gate-keepers who demand compliance with it.

The bigger the unit the more pessimistic we are. Smaller units of change, like a local community, breed optimism. Read more 👉 lttr.ai/AgDd6

Core Agile principles, even in a simplified form like we've applied, stand in stark contrast to the old ways, offering a path to genuinely transformative public services Read more 👉 lttr.ai/Afxq1

Sectors Reimagined as Products, and the Move to Agile Place open.substack.com/pub/ptaylor/p/…