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The Radical How: What would it take to run a mission-oriented government? My attempt to summarise an ace new report by @tomskitomski Andrew Greenway and the folks at Public Digital and Nesta medium.com/@jamestplunket… (Read the report - it's much better than my post!)

🛩️ New post! ArriveCan and the contractor conundrum 🛩️ The AG report says “relying on external resources” contributed to ArriveCan’s mismanagement. I think we rely on external resources to get around our onerous IT processes. Let's adapt, not retrench. federal-field-notes.ca/articles/2024-…

For those who are into this sort of thing - the boring magic that actually makes government work (or not) - this is really, really good.

On 18 April I am chairing a Public Digital event on "The person-centred healthcare record - pipe dream or inevitability?" I have a fantastic panel lined up in the shape of Axel Heitmueller rachel dunscombe Tracey Watson Gary McAllister @jessRmorley Details: tickettailor.com/events/publicd…

🚨🚨🚨Francis Maude backs liberating the Postcode Address File!!🚨🚨🚨

I’m a fan of this idea - but rather than swap one arrangement of benefits (and therefore demographic traps) for another, could we not let people select their preferred mix of salary/pension/leave, say annually, and they can tweak depending on their circumstances?

The importance of local government in Mission-led delivery 👇 themj.co.uk/Mission-Possib… thanks to Public Digital

NEW: Starmer announces ‘mission delivery boards’, which he himself will chair Confirms our @ft scoop last month 👇 ft.com/content/790396…

The constraints facing the Labour government provide an unmissable opportunity to change how government works. Our report w/Public Digital outlines how to build a mission-oriented government that delivers better outcomes, reduces risk & rebuilds trust. bit.ly/45R90hA

[NEW] Ministers have inherited a civil service in urgent need of reform. If Keir Starmer’s government is to deliver its priorities, there will need to be radical improvements to Whitehall. Our report sets out 20 tangible actions the government should take instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/wa…

Lots of very sensible ideas in here...

This is perhaps the best, most readable, most well-argued roadmap for navigating out of our build-nothing kludgeocracy. *Thank you*, Jennifer Pahlka, Andrew Greenway, Niskanen Center. READ IT! .Jared Isaacman a *LOT* of this report applies to NASA 👀 niskanencenter.org/wp-content/upl…

Rather annoyingly, the British have some lessons for us on state capacity. Andrew Greenway and friend-of-the-pod Jennifer Pahlka broke down those insights on Statecraft. statecraft.pub/p/what-can-the…

About the state capacity report we published recently, Matthew Yglesias wrote today: "This is the one I wish everyone working in politics or advocacy professionally would read and the one you should bug your elected officials about." Thank you! niskanencenter.org/the-how-we-nee…

Really enjoyed reading "The How We Need Now" by Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway. Governments need to get better. A neat diagnosis of the failures of both the US and UK's bureaucracies to adjust to the changing world. The to-do list at the back is a fantastic prescription.

🚨 New episode alert 🚨 Elon Musk's DOGE has put state capacity in the spotlight this week. Why doesn't our government work, and what can be done about it? Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway join the Dynamist this week to talk fixing bureaucracy. Some takeaways: 1/

Excited to share that my book on how Blair govt delivered transformative public service reform is available to pre-order 👇 amzn.eu/d/iiVfwHd In writing ‘The Art of Delivery’, I had access to Sir Michael Barber diaries & interviews w key politicians, SPADs & civil servants