In no particular order... When teams are under pressure, the path of least resistance is to stick to what they know. To collaborate with people who work differently slows things down and feels like a luxury. It's easy to overlook adoption and improvement of what we already have in favour of more and more new … Continue reading 21 things I learned in 2021
As a product manager in the late 1990s, I had the good fortune to work in a multidisciplinary team with pioneers in two nascent roles. The first was someone we would now call a data scientist, a biologist who – years before Google Analytics was a thing – married statistics learned studying fish populations with … Continue reading The SRO in the observation room: why 2 hours every 6 weeks is a must for every senior leader
In part 1 of this update, I talked about some of the things that have changed for me at work over the past six months. Much of that is down to the challenge, support and learning I’ve experienced on the NHS Leadership Academy’s Nye Bevan Programme. The programme is designed to: ”develop the skills, knowledge, … Continue reading Things I have learned: Two and a half years into my work at NHS Digital – part 2
More than 150 years ago John Ruskin imagined the experience of flight. Now, thanks to Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, we can begin to imagine the possibilities without it. Robert Paterson provocatively suggests in Volcano & Air Travel - A Black Swan? What might happen: At the moment we are all treating this event as a temporary inconvenience. But … Continue reading If the dust doesn’t settle: Gin, Jetplanes and Transitive Surplus
Matt Edgar writes here 