Which Councils Are Best? 2019
Our new report is out: which councils are in the Top 10 this year?
November 13, 2019
Jon Ainger
The EDGEWORK Manifesto: How to deliver sustainable change in complex public services
We hope that our new book starts a conversation about why smart, dedicated and experienced public sector leaders find it difficult to make measurable and sustainable improvements
October 21, 2019
Launching tomorrow…The EDGEWORK Manifesto
Our new book makes the case for a new approach to public sector leadership and consultancy, and explores the difference between ‘complicated’ and ‘complex’ issues
October 16, 2019
Performance anxiety
I’m really looking forward to attending the LGA conference this week in Bournemouth, I’m particularly looking forward to debates on sector performance. I share my three key learnings about productivity in the public sector.
July 1, 2019
6 tips for delivering successful Primed Performance
IMPOWER's Primed Performance Management approach focuses on reconnecting the workforce both to their moral purpose and to the need to deliver measurable results. I want to set out a bit more detail about how we achieve this.
March 11, 2019
Primed to perform: remembering why you get out of bed in the morning and come to work
IMPOWER’s focus on the delivery of measurable and sustainable change means we spend a lot of our time helping our clients to improve the performance of their own staff.
February 18, 2019
The value of making better quality decisions
How can councils make difficult decisions stick?
December 4, 2018
Top 10 most productive councils in England: 2018
Which councils are spending their money most effectively and getting the best outcomes for citizens?
November 22, 2018
Council performance doesn’t matter when it comes to local election results
This article was originally published in The MJ on 24 May 2018. Much of the analysis of the May local…
May 25, 2018
Why nudging (by itself) isn’t enough
We were delighted when the LGA recently announced that six more local organisations have won grants to deliver behavioural science-based…
January 8, 2018
Top 10 most productive councils in England
Traditional tools don’t work very well when applied to complex public sector systems – so we decided to build our own, using publicly available data and applying more than 17 years of consultancy experience.
December 6, 2017
Nudge theory, the Nobel Prize – and social care
Earlier this month, the economist Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize – for his work on ‘nudge theory’ –…
October 18, 2017
Let’s have an ‘un-digital’ conversation
I worked at Andersen Consulting from 1997 to 2000, in their burgeoning Strategy practice. I was lucky to witness at…
November 16, 2015
Five reasons why behavioural insight isn’t being used to improve public services
Like many hundreds of other eager and interested people, I attended the star-studded BX2015 conference a couple of weeks ago….
September 24, 2015
Driving Practical Value From An Insight Hub
A couple of weeks ago, as the first in a series of pieces emerging from our recent report ‘The Inflection…
May 21, 2015
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