Comments on: Hardwired State

By: Practical Wisdom: Revising the Janitor’s list « laurenivory

Practical Wisdom: Revising the Janitor’s list « laurenivory — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:37:20 +0000

[...] constantly ground myself in the complex reality of public services. As Paul Clarke mentions in his blog lack of talent and creative ideas are not a problem. How do we get these ideas used? How do you [...]

By: What’s so good about sustainable public services anyway? « News from a Nerd

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:46:19 +0000

[...] it’s a great project, Paul Clarke made the good point that a lot of these types of things don’t create long-term sustainable services that are [...]

By: alex

alex — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:57:59 +0000

Paul

If the avatars ( don’t know their names )came to Britain, would they build a government infra-structure like the one we have ?

Will my children put up with the DVLA, HMRC and all that other irrelevant paper stuff ?

If the answers are No, then

a) do you need the causes of the problem in the room when you try to design a solution ?

Lots of people I know simply don’t bother connecting with government. They include the 3 million without MOT or insurance for their car, the 500,000 who live here but leave no trace and the 50% of people who will not vote.

How about a primary school class ( aged about 10 ) and a elderly care home group for your membership group.

They could learn from each other – the old can describe their frustrations, and the young can solve them. IT and business people could observe.

By: How do we make the UK Government Barcamp become its title? | Public Strategist

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:25:21 +0000

[...] discussion in Paul Clarke’s excellent session about how to experiment with innovation in the hardwired state left me feeling more than a little uneasy. It took me the best part of another day to work out [...]

By: Socialreporter | Playing through the Hardwired State

Socialreporter | Playing through the Hardwired State — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:46:58 +0000

[...] Reboot Britain, and Show Us a Better Way into the real world of public service production. In Hardwired State he suggests taking a few great ideas and playing through a simulation with a bunch of people who [...]

By: Harry Metcalfe

Harry Metcalfe — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:28:34 +0000

I’d certainly give that a go. Sounds promising.

Plenty of people have been saying that management and policy types should be coming to Barcamps and getting involved, but that doesn’t seem to be happening in any major way. Perhaps this would work better.

By: Noel Hatch

Noel Hatch — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:15:40 +0000

Excellent idea, something we’ve been thinking about after discovering the amazing http://bootcycle.com. Have you seen what BIS are developing around this area http://bit.ly/588AAj

By: Janet E Davis

Janet E Davis — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:44:32 +0000

Why is it not done already? Seems such an obvious, cost-effective, low-risk thing to do.
Just one thing I wonder: are the suggested participants too high in hierarchies to see the potential blockages in implementation, maybe?

By: Dave Briggs

Dave Briggs — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:38:45 +0000

Hi Paul

Great sessions at ukgc10 and will be keen to be involved.

The issue with innovation is that there are so few public sector organisations that have innovation processes or systems, which is why so many attempts to innovate get lost. Because there is no real workflow for ideas, innovation projects exist on the fringes of organisations and never become a part of business as usual.

Hardwired State therefore has two potential opportunities. One is to shine a light on the reasons why innovation doesn’t tend to succeed in government. Second, it might provide an example of how innovation systems might work in public sector organisations, and to convince people that such processes are worth developing and embedding.

By: Rob O'Callaghan

Rob O'Callaghan — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:24:25 +0000

What do you think? Should we try it?

In one word YES

I’ve been thinking along the same lines for a while. But often I don’t talk about it hen I’m sober – lol

We are getting to the point where people can and are self organizing. Where the government (local and central) is acting too slowly we will work around them – patch, rewire , fill and ignore…

Life and Business has speeded up…

They need to up their game.

Rob.