The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

I am especially interested in current efforts to reform the welfare state in the UK.

All companies strive for better business performance... its part of what keeps you in business. The problem is that although many are good at finding new / better ways to do things, few are good at eradicating old habits. We all like to hang on to things that have served...

Bureaucracy is particularly prevalent in large organisations and is often a bi-product of ineffective risk-management. In a lot of cases systems, processes, and controls are introduced to try and mitigate real or perceived risk. However, if the cost of mitigating that risk is greater than the risk itself, then there...

The note of bureaucracy is located throughout a company. The most challenged area is the middle management area where middle managers are not passing important information up and also communicating it down so adaption can take place.