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Youu may have seen the rather clever and funny HBO sitcom ‘Silicon Valley‘ exploring the lives of five white young male software engineers build a startup called ‘Pied Piper’. In the show, the team at ‘Pied Piper are developing their … Continue reading →

What a week! Seriously, I’m sitting in the garden reflecting not only on the unusually good weather, but the most amazing week of learning and connecting about improvement research and practice. This time last week, I arrived in Montreal for … Continue reading →

Last summer, I asked Twitter users, what their views were on the difference between Quality improvement (QI) and Organisational development (OD) is and I followed it up in a blog. I promised I would write another blog about it… so … Continue reading →

This was the question posed by Dr John Toussaint* on Twitter earlier this week. Big question, and in my view the answers are probably as relevant to organisations outside of healthcare as those in it. It is also an important … Continue reading →

I first heard the word neoliberalism during an epistemology class as part of the first year of my PhD. I didn’t take much notice, frankly it was another long word that I just hadn’t heard before and in that class, … Continue reading →

Without doubt, this is the question I have been asked most during the last 4 months since returning to paid up employment: ‘Which improvement approach do I think, is the best?’ I find it sometimes a tricky question to answer, … Continue reading →