I’ve been thinking a lot about efficiency in the public sector recently. This post looks at ideas for increasing the efficiency of analysis and operations through automation, good coding practices, artificial intelligence, and, well, (meta-?) analysis. This is the second post in this series; see the previous post for ideas on efficiency related to communication and co-ordination. What is meant by analysis and operations? What does it mean to make analysis more efficient? It is to produce an...| Arthur Turrell
I’ve been thinking a lot about efficiency in the public sector recently, particularly how we can improve it. In this post, I’ll focus on some ideas for improving communication and co-ordination between public sector workers. Quick disclaimer: efficiency, in time or money, is not the only important factor. People’s well-being and satisfaction matter too. (It matters in itself but it’s also true that grumpy staff are not going to be well-motivated.) Most of the time there isn’t going ...| Arthur Turrell
Many of us will have experienced bad hardware or software at work. Applications that freeze when you try and do something. A lag when typing. Some programmes ceasing to work before crashing completely. Maybe it’s another kind of performance that makes you want to throw your laptop out of the window: the battery dies after you’ve only been to a couple of meetings, or the text on the screen screen seems teeny tiny if you’re not plugged into a monitor. All of this is very annoying. But, wo...| Arthur Turrell