Here’s how public services can find their second curve…
Writing for Pioneer’s Post, MV’s Andrew Laird contemplates how the philosophy of leading business thinker Charles Handy can be applied to...
Andrew Laird
Nov 4, 20154 min read
What Addenbrooke’s hospital can learn from one of our best social enterprises
Writing for the HSJ, MV’s Andrew Laird discusses what Addenbrooke’s hospital could learn from Spiral Health CIC. The labelling...
Andrew Laird
Nov 4, 20154 min read
From Librarian to Entrepreneur
Writing for HuffPost, Andrew Laird discusses how librarians in York have become more entrepreneurial. Over the last five years, library...
Andrew Laird
Oct 28, 20153 min read
Let’s Release Public Services From the ‘Computer Says No’ Culture
Writing for HuffPost, Andrew Laird makes the case for more human public services… There’s a widespread discussion going on about how...
Andrew Laird
Oct 8, 20153 min read
Life outside the public sector: what it’s like to be a social care spin-out
Writing for the Guardian’s Social Care Network, MV’s Anne-Helene Sinha describes the experience of two adult social care spin-outs… When...
Mutual Ventures
Oct 6, 20153 min read
What Can We Learn From the Failure at Addenbrooke’s Hospital?
Writing for the Huffington Post, MV’s Andrew Laird discusses the disconnect between managers and staff that caused the failure at...
Andrew Laird
Sep 25, 20153 min read
From employee to boss: quitting the public sector for a staff-led company
Writing for Community Care, MV’s Oliver Cappleman looks at how staff from two care services fared when they left the public sector to set...
Oliver Cappleman
Sep 22, 20154 min read
Giving local leaders the ‘trust to try things out’ – why the government is right to back
The General Election already feels like a distant memory. In the end the debate around the economy dominated the campaign but, whatever...
Andrew Laird
Sep 10, 20152 min read
Five steps to unleashing the public sector’s greatest asset
Make sure your staff are engaged and the whole machine will work better. Writing in Pioneer’s Post, MV’s Emmet Regan sets out five key...
Emmet Regan
Aug 22, 20153 min read
What is your data treasure chest telling you?
In our third Pioneers Post article on public service entrepreneurship, John Copps presents his top five tips on getting the most out of...
John Copps
Jul 20, 20153 min read
Public service entrepreneurship: get prototyping
Fail early and cheaply – in the second article in our public service entrepreneurship series, Andrew Laird says it’s time for public...
Andrew Laird
Jun 29, 20153 min read
Staff engagement is the NHS’s greatest asset but it’s yet to reach full potential
Writing for HSJ, MV’s John Copps argues that staff engagement is no longer just a ‘nice to have’ but a pre-condition for a high...
John Copps
Jun 25, 20154 min read
Public service entrepreneurship: a quiet revolution
MV Director Andrew Laird urges those delivering public services to push back against the layers of red tape associated with top down...
Andrew Laird
May 19, 20153 min read
In defence of a balanced NHS market, with social enterprise increasingly at its core
Andrew Laird from Mutual Ventures gives his views on recent events… A couple of weeks ago Circle, a private company with a substantial...
Andrew Laird
Jan 23, 20153 min read
Employee empowerment: the right sort of change in the NHS
Following more news reports that the NHS is in “crisis” and unable to deal with “renewed pressure” on its Accident and Emergency...
Andrew Laird
Jan 12, 20153 min read
Why ‘Big Society’ is a dismantled concept in need of repair
The Big Society theme of David Cameron’s campaign at the 2010 election was the target of mass media and political lampooning. It...
Andrew Laird
Nov 11, 20143 min read
Healthwatch Business Development Masterclass – Oct 16th and 17th
In partnership with Patient Public Involvement (PPI) Solutions, Mutual Ventures are running a two day Healthwatch Business Development...
Mutual Ventures
Oct 16, 20141 min read
Six lessons on leadership from the Ryder Cup
Writing for Pioneers Post, Mutual Ventures Director Andrew Laird comments on the lessons we can all draw from the Ryder Cup. If you...
Andrew Laird
Oct 7, 20143 min read
The next phase of NHS mutualisation is about to begin!
On Monday 11th August, a range of NHS leaders gathered for an event hosted by Mutual Ventures, the Cabinet Office and the Department of...
Andrew Laird
Aug 11, 20143 min read
Innovation in public services – radical or incremental?
In his latest Pioneers Post article, Mutual Ventures Director Andrew Laird argues that in the world of public services where people...
Andrew Laird
Jul 30, 20143 min read