Systems Thinking - John Seddon

It's time to dump targets and replace them




I
seek to demonstrate - with case studies - that targets actually
undermine achievement of purpose, which is improving public sector
performance. I shall also illustrate an alternative approach, which is
to make capability measurement the corner stone of public sector
improvement. I shall describe what these measures are, how they differ
from targets and how they are used to understand and improve
performance in a sustainable way. The case studies show significant
performance improvement using capability measures and I shall ask the
reader to reflect on whether this level of improvement could ever have
been achieved within the current targets regime.

Scribefire

Scribefire 2.00

Now I've blogged about
this before but the recent upgrade of this firefox add on that allows
you open a rich text blogging tool in the lower half of your browser
screen. It was great before but the new version supports

• tabs that allow mutiple blog postings at the same time
• Easy flickr photo embedding
• YouTube video embedding
  

I
havent made it exciting but it is a great tool and the tab allowing
sharing of blog posting via stumble upon,facebook reddit etc etc go on
have a look its a great tool. plus abilty to bookmarket on delcious
from within the tool
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730