Business Process Redesign
A Capacity Crisis Risks Implementation of Family First
Only by addressing the capacity crisis up front, before changing practice, can the goals of Family First be achieved. At Change...
CCWIS – A Call to Action to Increase Capacity
There are several key opportunities to include in your complete plan for CCWIS implementation to drive improved outcomes and increase capacity.
Adaptive Leadership: Streamlining Processes Before Automation
Before you automate, consider these simple steps to speed up how your work gets done.
Performance Improvement
The Fen-Phen Phenomenon is Killing Our Children
We all agree child welfare in our world is not as healthy as we would like it to be. No one wants to see vulnerable children at risk, but it seems like every attempt to get healthier isn’t working, and we are all clinging to the hope that the next thing we try will be the real deal.
The Unintended Consequences of Improvement
Sometimes when we make reforms, government jobs get better too.
What to do with the ‘Flo’s’ of Child Protection
If the work made passionate people act like Flo on the TV series “Alice,” then the work can bring them back.
Measurement
Gaming the System
How the misuse of data impedes innovation
Fear and Loathing in Chicago
Management lessons from the teachers’ strike.
The Dark Side of Accountability
Ken Miller draws from his latest book to explain how management-by-fear accountability systems rarely work and produce devastating side effects.