The wall in the photograph There is a photograph of a garden wall in West Hertfordshire, planting along the top of it, the kind of local, unshowy picture you put on
The Martell Bolton Test The Martell Bolton Test This test needs JavaScript to score your answers. The four axes are Court / Yard, Raven / Weirwood, Steel / Oath, and
New rules came out this month. What I’d like to make clear is this – social value is both a thing that happens in society, and a thing that happens
Two non-profits had a very profitable summer. Three things to keep in your head when you are making your own commercial decisions.
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
A lodestone is a stone that knows where north is. I am being literal. It’s a lump of magnetite that took a lightning strike at some point in its life
