Tom LoosemoreI've written something on the need for boldness in what organisation do, not just how they do it. https://public.digital/pd-insights/blog/2024/10/what-we-mean-when-we-say-be-bold
Tom Loosemore
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Work at Public Digital. Formerly of GDS and BBC. Not the heart surgeon.
A full 20 years since our 6 year old son beat off the malign machinations of Barney The Purple Dinosaur for control of barney.co.uk
The story was nicely covered at the time by the much-missed NTK.
http://www.ntk.net/2004/05/28/?arc
Russ GarrettIf you're going to make a big deal in the national press about how top secret your high security greenhouse is, I'd recommend hiding it a bit better so two nerds in a slack channel can't find it within 15 minutes of idle searching.
Headline below doesn't reflect how much Universal Credit needs to change. But the 'test and learn' approach to policy/ops/delivery that its civil servants try to embrace is genuinely world leading. However YMMV (Your Minister May Vary). https://eatingpolicy.substack.com/p/the-brits-are-way-ahead-of-us-again
Mark Foden"Applying the Radical How means conducting multiple small-scale experiments at the boundaries of policy and delivery - and doing this permanently, in pursuit of a policy intent or outcome
This approach is not a case of simply running lots of pilots. A pilot implies starting with a phase for learning, which then ends as you move into 'roll out'. Pilots also tend to imply testing a whole solution to see if it works, rather than specific hypotheses"
Drop the pilot
@tomski https://public.digital/2024/02/21/why-we-should-radically-change-how-we-do-change
My colleague Andrew Greenway and I have just published 'The Radical How', a NESTA-funded paper making the case for governments changing how they do change. Feedback welcome! https://public.digital/2024/02/21/why-we-should-radically-change-how-we-do-change
Looks awfully like Boeing forgot to put any of the bolts in the door plug in that 737, and it was just being held in place by spring tension since it entered service in October.
At some point I'd like to read a book about how Boeing completely forgot how to make planes.
737 Mid-Cabin Emergency Exit Doors - Plug Option
@slightlyoff Urgh. That's terrible.
@SK53 @Edent Over 15 years, at least. Tom Watson manager to get the PAF very briefly freed up for the purposes of an open data competition in 2008... https://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2008/07/want-the-postcode-address-file-for-free-just-ask-updated/