Happy New Year

I hope you all were able to enjoy a nice break. I certainly did. The New Year is a time for reflection, prediction, wishes and resolutions.

Today's Guardian has a couple of New Year type features.

The first is a public policy wish list with desires ranging from more public loos to flexible working for everyone.

The second is set of public sector predictions for the coming year. I don't think the first prognostication will surprise anybody:

The year to come is likely to bring a squeeze on public-sector budgets - and see the beginning of a sea change in the way services are delivered.

So what about you? What do you predict for the New Year? What would be your greatest wish? Have you made any workplace resolutions - are you planning big changes in the way you'll be doing things?

I've been thinking a lot about the promised reduction of performance indicators and the reduced demand of information from Government and inspectors. I wish their promise comes true in the genuine spirit in which I think it was intended. But I predict some friction and compromise before the year is out.


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New communities

Working on PM Partner has been a really interesting experience of collaborative knowledge-building. The site is still active and focused on performance management in partnerships, but we've opened a couple of new communities of practice as well.

These are hosted on the IDeA's community of practice platform - this is a semi-private online space. That is, you have to register to view any of the content - but anyone can join the two communities we've started

Policy and performance: this community is aimed at people who work in the area of developing or implementing improvement policy.

Performance management: this community is for people who want to share the latest developments on performance management - particularly around more detailed or technical aspects.



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