Mark Adam Smith

  • Designing For Connection Rather Than Transaction

    Health is not made in health systems, it’s made in homes, in communities, in workplaces. So unless we can build horizontal bonds between communities and the kind of expertise and resource in health systems, we can’t really make change. Hilary… Continue reading

    Designing For Connection Rather Than Transaction
  • Efficiency Isn’t Always Effective

    Being efficient is not half as effective as conventional management would like to think. Working across health, the criminal justice system, mental health, housing, social care, or education requires us to take a whole person view of someone. It requires… Continue reading

    Efficiency Isn’t Always Effective
  • How Do You Change A System That Doesn’t Want To Change?

    There were two recurring P words throughout the New Local ‘Stronger Things’ event in London’s Guildhall. Permission: give it. Power: share it. The Guildhall was built in the 15th century to demonstrate the continuing power of the merchants of the… Continue reading

    How Do You Change A System That Doesn’t Want To Change?