Learning to be more innovative

I’ve recently attended a couple of sessions exploring innovation organised by the Young Foundation as part of the London Collaborative.  At the first Geoff Mulgan spoke about how social innovations happen, what is it that makes them grow and become successful.  He mentioned the foundation’s social innovation exchange and that President Obama has set up [...]

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Priorities not targets

In her article in a SOLACE pamphlet, Governing a world city, published earlier this month, Lucy de Groot writes about the potential that Local Area Agreements offer for Londoners.  In the piece, she quotes a comment made by Rob Whiteman, the chief executive at Barking and Dagenham, that councils need to focus on priorities, not [...]

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