Day 107 – 13 June 2014 It is normally me who stands up at the front and does the presentations but not today. The Corporate Management Team do some regular, if not very frequent, state of the nation presentations and go around the various main buildings to talk to the people. Shamefacedly I have to … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 107
A year of work in progress – day 106
Day 106 – 12 June 2014 Today was another one spent north of the Tyne. That makes two in a row. This morning we had our regular North East ICT Managers meeting and Ian at North Tyneside had offered us a room. It was not worth driving to Durham to come back for half ten … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 106
A year of work in progress – day 103
Day 103 – 9 June 2014 I finished the book ‘Accelerating health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation’ by Paul Plsek. It wasn’t as enjoyable as the first Virginia Mason book I read though it did have some pithy quotes in it. I particularly liked the concept of ‘trystorming’, a bit like brainstorming only letting … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 103
A year of work in progress – day 102
Day 102 – 6 June 2014 There is nothing nicer than left over pie to get you started (that is if you don’t include left over curry but that is not always great if you have a meeting to go to). Pastry must count as one of mankind’s greatest achievements. Today was SOCITM day and … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 102
A year of work in progress – day 101
Day 101 – 5 June 2014 I had no presentations today but I did go and check my laptop with the projector in committee room two as it didn’t show the video correctly yesterday. In a way that was fortunate as most of the rude bits were left off the screen. I have the same … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 101
A year of work in progress – day 100
Day 100 – 4 June 2014 A hundred days and what have I achieved? I picked up Neil A on the way into work this morning as it is management Wednesday and he lives in Cramlington. Finding one space at County Hall (Durham) is hard enough but finding two would be a miracle. We got … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 100
A year of work in progress – day 99
Day 99 – 3 June 2014 Broadband Delivery UK keeps telling us that we are running one of the best programmes across the country. Apparently we are in their top five out of forty four. I’m not sure how they judge this or how we could get to number one, even if we wanted to. … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 99
A year of work in progress – day 98
Day 98 – 2 June 2014 Today was a game of two halves. The morning was in County Hall in Durham and the afternoon was in County Hall in Northumberland. This is going to get confusing. After a couple of very short meetings about the web and communications for Digital Durham I tried something different … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 98
A year of work in progress – day 97
Day 97 – 30 May 2014 I’ve started to read ‘Accelerating Health Care Transformation with Lean and Innovation’ by Paul Plsek, a snappy title if ever there was one. It is the follow up book to ‘Transforming Health Care’ about the Virginia Mason approach to serving patients and has reminded me that we still haven’t … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 97
A year of work in progress – day 96
Day 96 – 29 May 2014 Having reflected on yesterday’s training session I am very pleased with the outcome. Darran always does a great job. He manages to get the balance right between the trainer and a colleague. There were only eleven of us out of seventeen and so having this in half term might … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 96
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 