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The Whitehall Effect ~
John Seddon -
Online Notes
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Introduction
1. Prelude
Part 1: The industrialisation of public services
2: Call centres
3. Back Offices
4. Shared Services
5. Outsourcing
6. Information Technology
Part 2: Delivering services that work
Introduction
7. A better philosophy
8. Effective change starts with ‘study’
9. Better thinking, better design
10. ‘Locality’ working
11. IT as pull, not push
Part 3: Things that make your head hurt
12. Targets and standards make performance worse
13. Inspection can’t improve performance
14. Regulation is a disease
15. It’s the system, not the people
16. Incentives always get you less
Part 4: ideology, fashions and fads
17. Choice
18. Personal Budgets
19. Commissioning
20. Managing demand
21. Nudge
22. Procurement
23. Risk management
24. Lean
25. IT: features over benefits
Part 5 Change must start in Whitehall
26. Beware economists bearing plausible ideas
27. Whitehall is incapable of doing evidence
28. Getting a focus on purpose
22.
Procurement: how to ensure you don’t get what you want
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See Ian Gilson of Perfect Flow talking about his experience in housing repairs
here
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