Excellent account that hits home after years of influencing an organisation's approach to doing this important activity right, better, more memorable. Roundtables are often either a dime a dozen/churned by anyone, anyhow or over engineered until no soul is left in it, unless it just dies in the internal politics of who "owns" it: the report writer? The boss? The aspiring thought leader in a junior role? It's an input-output situation that deserves the value, space, trust to be left to the right people and skills. Roundtables should be good! Make roundtables good again?! Thank you!
We’ve had a different journey at CivTech Scotland: going from a below-the-radar experiment to something featured in policy.
The biggest shift has been a growing recognition that policy is nothing unless it’s translated into delivery.
Personally I tend to see the issue being that policy is (1) in many ways embedded in the past, a cultural artefact of slower moving times long gone, (2) has a distain / non comprehension of delivery, and (3) has a profoundly ‘waterfall’ (slow moving) process, when what we really need are much faster, innovative ‘agile’ approaches to making people’s lives better.
Excellent account that hits home after years of influencing an organisation's approach to doing this important activity right, better, more memorable. Roundtables are often either a dime a dozen/churned by anyone, anyhow or over engineered until no soul is left in it, unless it just dies in the internal politics of who "owns" it: the report writer? The boss? The aspiring thought leader in a junior role? It's an input-output situation that deserves the value, space, trust to be left to the right people and skills. Roundtables should be good! Make roundtables good again?! Thank you!
We’ve had a different journey at CivTech Scotland: going from a below-the-radar experiment to something featured in policy.
The biggest shift has been a growing recognition that policy is nothing unless it’s translated into delivery.
Personally I tend to see the issue being that policy is (1) in many ways embedded in the past, a cultural artefact of slower moving times long gone, (2) has a distain / non comprehension of delivery, and (3) has a profoundly ‘waterfall’ (slow moving) process, when what we really need are much faster, innovative ‘agile’ approaches to making people’s lives better.
Is this the first piece of writing to make policy roundtables interesting?
Yes.