Our five step policy recommendations are not radical, but they are incremental innovations. We are confident that they will achieve cost savings, improve efficiency and productivity to streamline workflow and foster collaboration to harness renewable energy of patients, carers, volunteers and social care services and million + frontline NHS staff. Our objective is to decrease […]
To become effective at risk management we must understand how to manage, monitor and measure risk from a human point of view if we are going to get this process right. Here are the key principles for Governments or Commercial Organisations: 1. Think small. Think in manageable chunks. In computer science, a divide-and-conquer algorithm recursively breaks […]
SummaryManaging its civil and national security risk is one of the greater challenges facing any government. The government should embrace modern qualitative and quantitative methods of risk management, as it is only with robust governance structures and cutting-edge risk management solutions created by modern enterprise that the government can begin to effectively cope with that […]
Summary Dame Hackitt’s report on Review of Building Regulations and Safety presented to the Parliament in May 2018 by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government highlighted that there is ambiguity over where responsibility lies, exacerbated by a level of fragmentation within the industry, and precluding robust ownership of accountability. Similar issues […]
SummarySuicide is now the leading cause of death in British men under 40, and depression is rising among women. Adult mental health problems are experienced by 1 in 6 people at some stage during their lives in the UK. In January 2017, the Prime Minister (PM) pledged to strip away the stigma associated with mental […]
Atula Abeysekera …there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is [in this] category that tend to be the difficult ones.”(Donald Rumsfeld, 2002) Sometimes, from seemingly harmless causes come harmful effects. When those effects […]
The Civil Service reform plan, launched in 2012 by the last government, said that Civil Service leaders should demonstrate three qualities for the effective delivery of government policy. Civil servant should be inspiring about their work and futures; confident in their engagement with others; and able to empower their teams to deliver.In a fast-changing, digital […]
BUSINESS CASEThe Government has committed £2.3bn over next six years to increase flood resilience. These are big numbers and are mostly unfunded. Private sector funding is required bridge the gap. We show how to obtain £1bn of private sector funding: Utilitarian benefit (Net Gain: £300m)Extreme flooding impacts utility companies in water, telecoms and electricity supply […]
In a fast changing political and digital world where there are high operational and political risks, different leadership qualities are needed from millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) in order to create the next generation of leaders. We believe that there are three skill attributes that are needed for the next generation: 1.To innovate […]
This is our second paper on flood defences in the UK. The first paper published on 2nd of May 2016 focused on risk management and this paper discusses methods of funding for flood defences. The 2015/16 winter flooding cost the UK £2bn, of which £1.4bn was paid by insurers. The Government has committed to spending […]