Over the past 20 years, I’ve designed many digital products across a range of businesses. In each instance, we entered the sector with fresh eyes, which is actually helpful as it provides the ability to examine the sector and its problems without any preconceptions. Of course, there are challenges, and it’s a slow process, on…
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Contributed Articles
It’s time to think small – Grassroots innovation in housing
Harry is a consultant working in London, and on most Thursday evenings, up until a few weeks ago, he’d go to bed hungry. Thursdays are when his company’s senior directors are in the office and he, along with his colleagues, is careful to ensure he shuffles home at least five minutes after the last director…
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Is your transformation programme inconvenient?
It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” I’ve been doing some research for a social housing client which has meant reading a lot of corporate strategies and…
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Peabody’s GIS in the cloud
After just a couple of years of using GIS, it has become an indispensable part of Peabody’s planning and redevelopment capabilities. Peabody’s environmental services department maintains over 1.5 million square meters of public space in the Thamesmead area, including lakes, canals, bridges, concrete walkways, tarmac areas, car parks, shrub bedding, horse-grazing paddocks, 35 playgrounds and…
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Pictures of meaning
On 24 June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte crossed the River Neman into Russia, with Moscow in his sights. Starting with an army of nearly half a million men, marching 700 miles through forests, across dirt roads and uneven, unfriendly ground, the French invaders arrived in Moscow on 14 September 1812. Moscow was empty and denuded of…
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Purpose reigns
Should all projects follow a recognised methodology? Having recently become a Prince2 practitioner, I was convinced that yes, they should. And, as the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail, in the blinkered view I had at the time I was sure that the project methodology of…
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