Why Do Governments, Organisations, and Even Healthcare Value People and Communities as Worthless?

Why Do Governments, Organisations, and Even Healthcare Value People and Communities as Worthless?

by | Mar 24, 2025 | Budgeting, Change Management, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, Measurement, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation

As we try and create a positive social impact through people and communities, why are we continuously fighting and undermined by the decisions by our governments and organisations that don’t value people? Modern Accounting Standards Values People as...
How The NHS Can Transform Our Society By Tackling ‘Our Too Sick To Work’ Unemployment Crisis.

How The NHS Can Transform Our Society By Tackling ‘Our Too Sick To Work’ Unemployment Crisis.

by | Mar 21, 2025 | Budgeting, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Health and Wellbeing, NHS, Public Services Innovation, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation

The UK is facing a welfare crisis as ever more people claim benefits as they are unemployed and too sick to work. The NHS has a central role to play in creating social impact and unleashing their potential and building a new future for our society. Millions Are Too...
Is Measurement Destroying What Matters in Healthcare?

Is Measurement Destroying What Matters in Healthcare?

by | Mar 8, 2025 | Measurement, Community & Social Challenges, Engagement, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, Learning, Motivation, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation, Purpose & Wellbeing, Social Impact, Social Innovation

Healthcare is driven by measurement; tracking performance, improving efficiency, and meeting targets. But in our obsession with data, are we losing sight of what really matters? When clinicians spend more time filling out forms than listening to patients, we risk...
Why Problem Solving and Brainstorming in Groups Often Fails: Moving Beyond the Minimum Acceptable Solution

Why Problem Solving and Brainstorming in Groups Often Fails: Moving Beyond the Minimum Acceptable Solution

by | Jan 22, 2025 | Leadership & Decision Making, Change Management, Creativity & Innovation, Fundamentals, Leadership, Learning, Motivation, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation, Social Innovation

All too often a team groups together to do a brainstorming session to solve a problem. But despite the excitement the outcome is a disappointing failure: The ‘Minimum Acceptable Solution’, IntroductionWhat is Brainstorming and Group Problem Solving?The Excitement of...
Why Starting with “Defining the Problem” in Public Services is a Mistake

Why Starting with “Defining the Problem” in Public Services is a Mistake

by | Jan 21, 2025 | Leadership & Decision Making, Change Management, Community & Social Challenges, Fundamentals, Health and Wellbeing, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation, Purpose & Wellbeing, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation

Defining the problem is usually the very first step in most public sector projects and initiatives. However, starting by creating a fixed definition of the problem often leads the work to failure. Why? Because this approach limits decision making thinking agency and...
Why We Need To Avoid AIsolation: The AI Negative Social Impact Trap.

Why We Need To Avoid AIsolation: The AI Negative Social Impact Trap.

by | Jan 15, 2025 | Healthcare AI, Leadership & Decision Making, Learning, NHS, Purpose & Wellbeing, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation

AI has the potential to be an enormous force for good. Transforming lives and our public services for better. But it could also be a force that creates a negative social impact and a dystopian world. What is AIsolation?AI is Not Bad, But How We Use it Might BeThe Why...