by Philip Boxer I want to propose a way of thinking about leadership within an edge-driven organisation by drawing on the work done by John H Clippinger. In his forthcoming book on edge organisation, he…
by Philip Boxer The goal of e-Government is to enable government to become more responsive to its citizens while at the same time reducing its costs. We did a study for a government that wanted…
by Philip Boxer Social Flights, like airlines, provides flights. Except that Social Flights, unlike the airlines, has defined the demand they are responding to as asymmetric, developing a platform that can support the multi-sidedness of…
by Andrew Harrison How can we convincingly show the value of aligning services to the needs of the individual service user? It is a truism at the moment that outcomes can be improved for vulnerable…
by Philip Boxer In the previous blog on strategy ceilings, I made reference to architectures as describing the way differentiated behaviors are integrated. How are these architectures to be described? What makes relational architectures different?…
by Philip Boxer It is only with the full relational form that the ethos of action learning has to pervade the enterprise as a whole. Up to that point, the assumption the enterprise makes is…
by Philip Boxer Collaboration involves working with experiences in groups. As such, consideration can be given to basic assumption activity affecting the work of the group – the way our personal unconscious valencies affect the…
by Philip Boxer Everyone is collaborating these days. Collaboration has come to mean any working together by some team of specialists around a common goal. But is there something different about a collaboration that is…
by Philip Boxer The leadership of learning from experience involves learning from direct experience of practice – what is sometimes called action learning. This approach depends on establishing a ‘transference to the work’ in the sense that…
by Philip Boxer Practice-based commissioning is intended to overcome the difficulty of driving a health care reform agenda centrally through locating management of the health care ecosystem not at its center, but at its edges…