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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 from 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (GMT)
NESTA Policy Breakfast: 'Public services, leadership & innovation' - Wednesday, 3rd December, 2008
The performance of public services is a hot topic in UK politics. Caught in the crossfire between rising public expectations and tightening spending, managers are seeking to drive innovation to improve service and reduce costs. This requires a special kind of leadership and the development of new working relationships with non-traditional providers, including the third sector. This latter development poses challenges too: increasingly seen by both parties as the potential saviour of public services, what is, in fact, the capacity of the third sector to innovate and deliver major public service goals?
On Wednesday 3rd December, Ben Page, Managing Director, Ipsos MORI Public Affairs and Chairman of the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute will present and discuss Ipsos MORI's latest research on these topics and what they mean for the innovation debate.
To find out more and to take part in the conversation, please join us at this breakfast event for what we are sure will be a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion. Full breakfast will be provided.
When: Wednesday 3rd December from 8–9.30am
Where: NESTA, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE
NESTA’s Policy Breakfasts aim to strengthen the innovation policy community and foster debate and new ideas.
Ben Page
Ben graduated from Oxford University in 1986, and was one of the leaders of its first management buyout in 2000. Ben is a frequent writer and speaker on leadership and performance management in the public sector, he has directed hundreds of surveys examining quality of life, service delivery, customer care, communications and the democratic deficit.
Named one of the "100 most influential people in the public sector" by the Guardian newspaper and "one of the 50 most influential people in local government" by LGC, Ben has worked on public services with both Conservative and Labour ministers, as well as a wide range of local authorities and NHS Trusts.
Ben has a chapter in a new book looking at Blair's Britain, 1997-2007.
NESTA’s Policy & Research Unit
The NPRU aims to help transform the UK’s capacity for innovation by:
* Building a relevant and coherent policy and research programme that resonates with national priorities, political realities, media interest and the research frontier
* Integrating policy goals within all NESTA programmes - using research to design programmes, and using the evidence base created by programmes to drive policy development
* Establishing a strong policy and research community around innovation
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. We are the largest single endowment devoted exclusively to supporting talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. Our mission is to transform the UK’s capacity for innovation. We invest in early stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish.
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