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Nov 19, 2018 35 tweets 34 min read Read on X
[Thread - it's *framework* time! 🧐] As we're thinking about the future of government at @CPI_foundation and as we're exploring the shift from *enablement* to *empowerment* (see image) we've come across a couple of great "from-to" models. Here are some of them: Image
1/ @NewCitProj's table showing the shift from subject -> consumer -> citizen (citizenshift.info) cc: @jonjalex Image
2/ @Civsocfutures's PACT model - Power/Accountability/Connection/Trust (civilsocietyfutures.org/resources/) cc: @juliaunwin ImageImageImageImage
3/ @piawaugh's four paradigms:
- #1: Central to distributed
- #2: Analog to digital, human to machine
- #3: Scarcity to surplus, closed to open
- #4: Normative to formative, compliant to creative

(Do take a look at the entire excellent presentation docs.google.com/presentation/d…) ImageImageImageImage
4/ @AndreaSiodmok's "From 'best practice' to 'next practice'" () Image
5/ Jim Olhoff's and Michael Walcheski's "linear vs. systems thinking" chart (thesystemsthinker.com/wp-content/upl…) Image
6/ @jeremyheimans and @henrytimms "old power values VS. new power values" (hbr.org/2014/12/unders…) Image
7/ @swardley's "pioneers, settlers and town planners" model (blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pionee…) Image
8/ @ProfJohnKay’s table from his book on “Obliquity” ImageImage
9/ Machinebrain v Gardenbrain from “Gardens of Democracy” by @ericpliu and @NickHanauer Image
10/ Table of conceptual shifts from “Gardens of Democracy” (see previous tweet) Image
11/ @CollaborateCIC's "complexity-friendly vs. NPM" table (taken from this report: wordpress.collaboratei.com/wp-content/upl…) ImageImage
12/ And another one for the collection:
13/ @Easier_Inc's "from accountability to responsible practice":
14/ John Seddon’s (@VanguardMethod) description of the difference between “command-and-control thinking” and “systems thinking” (p. 58 in “Systems Thinking in the Public Sector”) Image
15/ John Seddon’s “purpose - measures - methods” under command & control thinking and under complexity thinking (p. 68 in the book mentioned above): Image
16/ ~~ quick interlude / update ~~ our latest thinking on what we’re now calling the ‘shared power principle’ (because ‘enablement’ seemed to passive) is here: resources.centreforpublicimpact.org/production/201…
17/ @noreenblanluet's (of @copronetwales) "Public service operating principles" (do read the post here: medium.com/@noreenblanlue…) Image
24/ @HilaryCottam‘s 20th C Welfare vs 21st C Radical Help (from the excellent „Radical Help“ book) Image
@HilaryCottam 25/ @CollaborateCIC's "shifts for a collaborative mindset" from their recent "manifesto for a collaborative society" (wordpress.collaboratei.com/wp-content/upl…) Image
@HilaryCottam @CollaborateCIC 26/ ...and four more "shifts" from the same @CollaborateCIC manifesto (there's also a fifth on p. 17 of the doc but Twitter won't let me add another screenshot) ImageImageImageImage
@HilaryCottam @CollaborateCIC 27/ "Implications of a systems approach" from the 2011
@instituteforgov working paper on "System Stewardship" (instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/…) by @mhallsworth (h/t @DyfrigWilliams) Image
@HilaryCottam @CollaborateCIC @instituteforgov @mhallsworth @DyfrigWilliams @CodesignLab_AKL @noreenblanluet 29/ ~~ Interlude 1~~

Our @CPI_foundation Shared Power Principle cards describe 4 shifts:
- hierarchy -> subsidiarity
- transactionality -> relationships
- target-driven mgmt -> redefined governance
- 'what works' -> continuous learning

They can be yours! sharedpowerprinciple.org Image
@HilaryCottam @CollaborateCIC @instituteforgov @mhallsworth @DyfrigWilliams @CodesignLab_AKL @noreenblanluet @CPI_foundation 30/ ~~ Interlude 2~~

The 'Manifesto for Better Government' which we've recently shared builds on many of the ideas expressed in all of these 'from-to' frameworks:
medium.com/centre-for-pub…

cc: @_AdrianBrown
31/ @corp_rebels‘s „8 Trends“ (corporate-rebels.com/trends/)

h/t @Cgrimes3 Image
32/ @anabjain‘s „Version 1.0 of a Field Guide for More-Than-Human Politics“ (medium.com/@anabjain/call…)

h/t @codekat Image
33/ @HilaryCottam‘s „seven ways from 20th century economics to 21st century economics“ (see also nr. 24)

https://t.co/9uZMQ0cROz
34/ @DemosHelsinki’s conventional policymaking vs humble policymaking

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This week I was asked to give a presentation about some lessons we might be able to learn from Switzerland's crisis management in this pandemic. It was a welcome opportunity to take a step back and reflect on that.

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I've been cleaning out my notes and wanted to share a short thread with four things I've learned/I've been wrong about/surprised by in the context of the pandemic.

The usual disclaimers apply (Twitter doesn't allow for a lot of nuance, your mileage may vary, etc. etc.).
1️⃣ Narratives are (much) more stable than I would have ever thought possible.

Switzerland is, by any sensible metric, doing badly in this pandemic. And yet this hasn’t filtered through to public discourse. It boggles the mind.
The logic seems to be “we usually do really well, therefore we must be doing well now”. Except we aren't.

Exhibit A:

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Loved all the generous responses to the question below. Thank you.

Here's the current structure of the argument on "new forms of organization in public administration (as a response to a changing environment)" (subject to - *a whole lot of* - change)

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(Note that this is for an audience which is inside government but is primarily composed of pragmatic practitioners, so this isn't the Association of People Who Are Deeply Into Public Administration Theory or what have you)
1⃣ Public administration structures are always necessarily 'of their time', i.e. contingent, no matter how permanent they might seem.

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🧵There have been a few good pieces written about ‘learning in/from a crisis”, some of them from a government reform/innovation angle, some from a more general learning perspective.

Below are a few that I’ve found useful. I might continue to add new ones as I find/read them.
“Is anyone deploying ‘Innovation and Learning’ people alongside COVID-19 Response Teams?” by @whatsthepont

whatsthepont.blog/2020/03/18/is-…
“Avoid learning too many lessons from these ‘unprecedented times’” by @jukesie

digitalbydefault.com/2020/04/27/avo…
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