Argyll and Bute CPP Management Committee Meeting

24 March 2010

“Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.”

Einstein

Mechanistic Thinking

• ‘stepping up a gear’

• ‘driving change

• ‘levers’

• ‘changing direction’

• ‘machinery of government’

‘… [most policy makers] concentrate their time on policy analysis, leaving too little time for analysing impacts in other areas, developing implementation policies and reflecting on their experience and the results of previous policy decisions.’

Cabinet Office report ‘Why policy-making needs modernising’

Systems Thinking - bigger pictures

single perspective

multipleperspectives

reductionism

holism

mechanisticthinking

systemsthinking

5 key questions to help engage with a systemic approach:

1. How would my perspective change if I regarded this organisation/ agency/ department/ community as a complex adaptive system?

2. What approach would I adopt if I accepted that this system cannot be controlled nor its behaviour predicted?

3. What other perspectives are there on this issue and how can I understand them?

4. How can I learn what is most effective here? How would I know?

5. What relationships are key in moving forward and how can I nurture them?

"It is hard to learn how to improve any system, when you are fighting to optimise you own position in isolation, as most parties will tend to do.”

W Edwards Demming

Goals and Achievement

• Beyond Shareholder Value– Endure and Grow

• Presumption on Growth• How?

– Adapt– Innovate– Perpetually Improve Execution

• How?– Align with Purpose – as defined by customer– Align with Measures – that are meaningful to customers– Ask the people who do the work

• Take their advice – Implement their suggested changes in line with Purpose

• Applies to Government too!

Target Condition in Three months

Time

Current Condition

Vision for

2030

Opposition

Unifying Worthy Goal

Fair & Open Processes

Care for each other

Experience

Relationship

Professor Ken Cloke’s Ladder of Unity

Totals

• Conversations 153

• Attendees 7,542

• Average 49

• Notional Cost £1,228,620

Communities & Govt. Communities & Govt. to date:to date: Dormant Bank Account ConsultationDormant Bank Account Consultation Enterprise, Energy & Tourism Dept.Enterprise, Energy & Tourism Dept. East Lothian Council, East Lothian Council, FalkirkFalkirk InvernessInverness PortreePortree West Lothian, West Lothian, AberdeenAberdeen Ayrshire Tourism Ayrshire Tourism InverclydeInverclyde ShetlandShetland West LothianWest Lothian Western Isles, Western Isles, SelkirkSelkirk StirlingStirling SutherlandSutherland Orkney, CaithnessOrkney, Caithness Saltire PrizeSaltire Prize GERS Briefing GERS Briefing Business Enterprise ScotlandBusiness Enterprise Scotland

Pipeline:Pipeline: Open- endedOpen- ended More In Argyll & ButeMore In Argyll & Bute Others involved in emulationOthers involved in emulation

Communities & GovernmentCommunities & Government:: Ardrishaig, Ardrishaig, MullMull22, , IslayIslay22, , Cowal, Cowal, Bute, Bute, Kintyre, Kintyre, Lismore, Lismore, ObanOban Oban High SchoolOban High School Tarbert Tarbert The Argyll & Bute SummitThe Argyll & Bute Summit DundeeDundee22, , Glasgow, Glasgow, AirdrieAirdrie AngusAngus North Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, KirkintillochKirkintilloch Upper & Lower Clyde, Upper & Lower Clyde, Helensburgh, Helensburgh, Ravenscraig Ravenscraig StranraerStranraer GirvanGirvan

Sectors to date:Sectors to date: Aerospace, Defence, Marine, Aerospace, Defence, Marine, Aquaculture,Aquaculture, ConstructionConstruction33,, Chemical SciencesChemical Sciences22, , Drinks, Drinks, E-CommerceE-Commerce GaelicGaelic ElectronicsElectronics22, , EnergyEnergy22, , EngineeringEngineering22, , Enterprise SectorsEnterprise Sectors22, , Entrepreneurial Exchange,Entrepreneurial Exchange, Farming Farming Finance, Finance, Food & DrinkFood & Drink22,, Forestry, Forestry, Glasgow/Edinburgh Partnership,Glasgow/Edinburgh Partnership, Harris TweedHarris Tweed22

ICT, ICT, Law SocietyLaw Society22

Life SciencesLife Sciences22, , ManufacturingManufacturing22, , Oil & Gas, Oil & Gas, OptoelectronicsOptoelectronics

RenewablesRenewables22, , Ship Management Ship Management Stem Cells, Stem Cells, Third SectorThird Sector22, , TextilesTextiles33

TourismTourism44,, UKATCUKATC Institute of Asian ProfessionalsInstitute of Asian Professionals Scottish Family Owned BusinessesScottish Family Owned Businesses Knowledge TransferKnowledge Transfer Housing AssociationsHousing Associations Europe – Green Energy CentreEurope – Green Energy Centre Europe – Marine EnergyEurope – Marine Energy Europe – Carbon Capture & StorageEurope – Carbon Capture & Storage EducationEducation HealthcareHealthcare Leadership ConferenceLeadership Conference Culture Heritage & the ArtsCulture Heritage & the Arts Arbitration Arbitration 33

Print MediaPrint Media ProcurementProcurement Leisure and sport clubsLeisure and sport clubs TransportTransport BroadbandBroadband SLAED – Scottish Local Authorities Economic Development GroupSLAED – Scottish Local Authorities Economic Development Group 22

Investors in PeopleInvestors in People Estate ManagementEstate Management

Key challenges

• Geography• Changing population• People on the fringe• Financial pressures

Argyll and Bute Community Plan 2009 - 12

Community engagement

• Strengthen and extend community planning processes

• Increase community involvement• Build capacity• Share experience, knowledge and resources

Argyll and Bute Community Plan 2009-12

Going forward

There is now the potential for on going debate and action planning with self nominated groups taking this forward at sectoral, community and thematic level.

Success lies in:

• Local drivers

• Openness and willingness to engage

• Understanding of what is expected

• Action planning