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We can all count the commentators queuing up to demand that we have more dialogue with the thousands of the greedy or disaffected who took part in last week’s destructive […]

There may well be too many consultations. And they often overlap. But in truth they just reflect the reality that decision-making is itself complex with interdependencies that make it unusual

The Government would like to achieve a culture-change. It feels – rightly or wrongly – that people are fed up with rather too many public servants beavering away doing bureaucratic

Most people won’t read the Government’s White Paper Open Public Services. And if they did, they might struggle to understand what it says! Maybe it’s because the Coalition has followed

Experienced organisers of consultations are familiar with many caricatured groups of people. The phrase Usual Suspects is often used to describe those who can be relied upon to appear in

There are at least two interpretations to what’s going on in national politics right now. One version sees a Government having to trim its ambitions and reach all sorts of

The term ‘domain’ originally meant a piece of land – a territory. Today we use it in a very different sense. Not only do many of us have a ‘domain

If the Localism Bill is taken at face-value, then local Councils are going to be busy organising a lot of Referendums. It represents a radically different approach to the last

Re-organisations have a bad name. It is easy to rail against them, and to criticise them for achieving few of their stated objectives. One of the most oft-quoted management sayings