Do you ever ask the question, what’s the point?
Most people see FIFA and the EAC as the “custodians of the game” and so get rightly outraged when these things happen. But nothing really changes. What seems to change
Most people see FIFA and the EAC as the “custodians of the game” and so get rightly outraged when these things happen. But nothing really changes. What seems to change
There’s two things I will never shut up about. That charities should be the first choice for delivering contractual social value, and that charities should be educated on this, and
Right now, if everything has gone to plan, I’m somewhere in Denmark, on a rollercoaster, with my son. And you’re reading this. I didn’t write it this morning. I wrote
Every good idea has a moment where somebody asks how we’re going to measure it. It’s usually early, then very often, and always before the idea has done anything of
The man at the networking breakfast said it kindly. He leaned across the sausages, nodded at my face, and told me to cheer up, because it might never happen.
Picture the least interesting contract a council could possibly sign. Toilet roll. A bin order. Uniforms for the leisure centre. Nobody writes a case study about bins, do they? And
Andy Burnham walked into Downing Street last week, and by Thursday he’d announced a two-pound cap on bus fares, said he’d review prison release, and taken the VAT off your
Think about the last piece of software your organisation paid for. It was probably at its best the afternoon you signed. Clean and quick, exactly what the demo promised. Then
magine signing off a building on a rough sketch, a pinky promise, or a good feeling. I assume you’d want the specification. What it’s made of, what it can hold,
The phone went at about nine in the evening. A company I had never worked with, bidding for a contract worth more than my house. They had done everything. The
Jackson Howell is the founder of Riselabs. He worked with Underpin Consultants on the positioning of his relaunch, and this month he wrote me the most generous testimonial I have
The first episode of ‘Building social value from scratch: seven pieces, one question. If you were designing a social value system from a blank page, how would you do
