RedQuadrant
Public service transformation consultancy, working with councils and other public bodies on difficult organisational and service challenges.
antlerboy
Benjamin P Taylor
systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
I help people work through complex issues: seeing what is really happening, making useful distinctions, and finding practical ways to act and learn.
Work
Public services, transformation and systems practice
Most of my work sits where public service practice meets organisation, change, systems, cybernetics and complexity.
the Public Service Transformation Academy
Learning, development and practical support to build public services' own capability to transform themselves.
SCiO
The professional body for systems practice. I am on the board and contribute to systems practice development and events.
Systems Community of Inquiry
I curate SysCoI: an open stream of systems | complexity | cybernetics material, events, papers, oddities and useful rabbit holes.
The Necessary Tangle
A living, evidence-backed atlas of systems, complexity and cybernetics: ideas, people, methods, lineages, practices and the different kinds of connection between them.
Thinking and writing
Where I put the longer thoughts
Systems, public services, organisation, power, learning, operational practice and whatever else has got stuck in my head.
chosen path
My main blog and archive of essays, working notes and arguments.
Medium
If you prefer reading there, many pieces are also available on Medium.
Transduction / Transformation
My LinkedIn newsletter on systems, transformation and public services.
Groups and communities
I own and support various groups on LinkedIn and Facebook.
Useful now
Direct routes to things people usually come here for
- RedQuadrant's local government reorganisation hubCurrent support and material on local government reorganisation (LGR) and devolution.
- Public Service Transformation Academy events and offersLearning, development and public service transformation activity.
- SCiO eventsSystems practice events and community activity.
- systems | complexity | cybernetics reading listA deliberately broad working reading list.
- Recent posts on relational public servicesWriting on services, relationships, outcomes and public value.
- The Operational Excellence SocietyI am on its advisory board.
- Systems Community of InquiryAn open discussion and curation stream on systems.
- Why @antlerboy?The origin story.