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Academic articles and published works

  • A Systematic Approach to Service Improvement Evaluating Systems Thinking in Housing
  • Commissioning Advice Services in Portsmouth
  • Delivering Public Services that Work (Volume 1)
  • Delivering Public Services that Work (Volume 2)
  • Efficiencies in Public Service Delivery in From Recession to Renewal
  • Evaluating Systems Thinking in Housing
  • Freedom from Command and Control
  • I Want You To Cheat
  • Jaaron & Backhouse 2014 Service organisations resilience using the Vanguard Method
  • Leading Lean Action to Transform Housing Services
  • Lean and Systems Thinking in the Public Sector in Wales
  • Locality and Vanguard (2014): Saving money by doing the right thing
  • Rethinking Lean Service, in Service Design and Delivery
  • Systemic Practice and Action Research
  • Systems Thinking and Public Sector Performance
  • Systems Thinking in the Public Sector
  • Systems thinking, lean production and action learning
  • Systems Thinking: From Heresy to Practice
  • Taking a systems approach to IT systems
  • The Achilles’ heel of scale service design: Universal Credit in the UK
  • The Germ Theory of Management
  • Vanguard Method and performance, Jaaron and Backhouse, 2012
  • Why aren’t we all working for Learning Organisations?

Introduction to Vanguard e-learning

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  • Library
    • Dr Deming’s aphorisms
    • Intervention
    • Regulation and inspection
    • Risk management
    • tVM and People Centred Systems
    • tVM and contact centres
    • Tools for fools
    • Videos: General
    • Videos: The Vanguard Method in action
    • Who’s Who: system thinkers
    • Articles
    • Observations and anecdotes
    • Command and control
    • Customers
    • Failures of change
    • Incentives
    • ISO 9000
    • Management thinkers
    • Managing Change
    • Misguided behaviour
    • Quality
    • Recommended reading
    • Some tactics for getting started
    • Standards and targets
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  • tVM and systems thinking
  • What can we learn from programmes of change?
  • Thinking things

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