Director, IMPOWER
Which councils are spending their money most effectively and getting the best outcomes for citizens?
This article was originally published in The MJ on 24 May 2018. Much of the analysis of the May local…
We were delighted when the LGA recently announced that six more local organisations have won grants to deliver behavioural science-based…
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.
Earlier this month, the economist Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize – for his work on ‘nudge theory’ –…
I worked at Andersen Consulting from 1997 to 2000, in their burgeoning Strategy practice. I was lucky to witness at…
Like many hundreds of other eager and interested people, I attended the star-studded BX2015 conference a couple of weeks ago….
A couple of weeks ago, as the first in a series of pieces emerging from our recent report ‘The Inflection…
Over the past 3 weeks I have spoken to a number of senior executives in local government, testing out the…
Advising my clients in local government at the moment can sometimes resemble therapy rather than professional management consultancy. They are…
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog setting out my view that the public sector is missing out on…
Last Friday at the LGC Summit I had the opportunity to share a platform with Steve Martin, the co-author of…
The ‘discovery’ that human beings are often irrational, and not utterly logical ‘econs’, was popularised in 2008 by the book…
This article originally appeared in The LGC In a key scene in the film ‘A Beautiful Mind’, Russell Crowe (playing…
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