Business Process Redesign
Modernization Is Desperately Needed … But It’s Not Enough
While new technology can help us with everything from tracking work to enhancing our safety models, by itself it’s not enough.
We Don’t Need Another Hero: Improve Capacity to Save Supervisors
Child welfare supervisors have an incredibly difficult job. One that is made even more complex by the broad role they play.
Child Welfare’s Pipe Problem: How Relieving the Pressure Can Ignite the Workforce’s Ability to Do Its Job
Child welfare has a pipe problem. Our pipes can't handle this much pressure... But there's another way, a way to relive the pressure and unleash the amazing internal motivation of our people ... and it starts with fixing the plumbing.
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.