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Top 10 most productive councils in England: 2018

Top 10 most productive councils in England: 2018

Which councils are spending their money most effectively and getting the best outcomes for citizens?

by Jon Ainger - November 22, 2018
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Council performance doesn’t matter when it comes to local election results

Council performance doesn’t matter when it comes to local…

This article was originally published in The MJ on 24 May 2018. Much of the analysis of the May local…

by Jon Ainger - May 25, 2018
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Why nudging (by itself) isn’t enough

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…

by Jon Ainger - January 8, 2018
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Top 10 most productive councils in England

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.

by Jon Ainger - December 6, 2017
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Nudge theory, the Nobel Prize – and social care

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’ –…

by Jon Ainger - October 18, 2017
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Let’s have an ‘un-digital’ conversation

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…

by Jon Ainger - November 16, 2015
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Five reasons why behavioural insight isn’t being used to improve public services

Five reasons why behavioural insight isn’t being used to…

Like many hundreds of other eager and interested people, I attended the star-studded BX2015 conference a couple of weeks ago….

by Jon Ainger - September 24, 2015
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Driving Practical Value From An Insight Hub

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…

by Jon Ainger - May 21, 2015
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On Local Government’s Goals (and windows)

On Local Government’s Goals (and windows)

Over the past 3 weeks I have spoken to a number of senior executives in local government, testing out the…

by Jon Ainger - April 20, 2015
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Prevention and Early Intervention: the last great untapped opportunity?

Prevention and Early Intervention: the last great untapped…

Advising my clients in local government at the moment can sometimes resemble therapy rather than professional management consultancy. They are…

by Jon Ainger - November 28, 2014
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A Checklist: Is Your Organisation Ready for Behavioural Science?

A Checklist: Is Your Organisation Ready for Behavioural…

  Earlier this week, I wrote a blog setting out my view that the public sector is missing out on…

by Jon Ainger - September 25, 2014
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Keeping It Simple

Keeping It Simple

Last Friday at the LGC Summit I had the opportunity to share a platform with Steve Martin, the co-author of…

by Jon Ainger - September 23, 2014
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The Cooperation Game by Jon Ainger in The MJ

The Cooperation Game by Jon Ainger in The MJ

The ‘discovery’ that human beings are often irrational, and not utterly logical ‘econs’, was popularised in 2008 by the book…

by Jon Ainger - April 30, 2014
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Beautiful Cooperation – IMPOWER Director Jon Ainger in the LGC

Beautiful Cooperation – IMPOWER Director Jon Ainger in…

This article originally appeared in The LGC In a key scene in the film ‘A Beautiful Mind’, Russell Crowe (playing…

by Jon Ainger - April 29, 2014
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