The merits and limitations of coproduction

 I’m always interested to read what David Boyle has to say.  He is the co-author of a recent report published jointly by the New Economics Foundation and NESTA.  The report puts forward co-production as the best, most cost effective way of improving public services. Boyle and his co author, Michael Harris, argue that by focusing [...]

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Leadership, innovation and loyalty

I’ve expressed some doubts here previously about ‘visionary leadership’ but I take it back – well, at least some of it.  I came across a very clear example of such leadership this week in an article in The Economist’s Technology Quarterly.  Marty Cooper was the first person to see the potential of mobile phones as [...]

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