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Professor John Seddon speaking at Lean & Kanban 2011 - AGILEMinds
Professor John Seddon speaks about software and IT at the AGILEminds conference More
Planting potatoes the right way - Deep systemic learning at Cumbria Council Highways
Highways were councillors number One concern. Letters on the issue filled their mailbags. Then they studied highways as a system. It's all different now. More
Motivation Intrinsic, engagement free
Of the two theories of human motivation (Theory X and Theory Y), only one is changing the world of work, the one behind the Vanguard Method. More
Policing by doing the right thing
Simon Caulkin's article on systems thinking in Cheshire Police Force More
It is safer to eat out in Great Yarmouth today – three cheers for a new model of regulation!
Great Yarmouth have transformed how they deliver their food safety service, its radical, and the regulator supported the change More

In The Press

Quality Remix: More on Quality – The End of Lean?
Quality magzine, 11th September 2010, Douglas Burleigh writes that he thinks 'lean is near the end of its cycle of popularity'. John Seddon has written that Lean is systems thinking applied to producing cars at the rate of demand. It says nothing about human change. More
The Immeasurable Value of Education
Attain magazine, 27th January 2012, what doesn't get measured by league tables and inspection? Well, pretty much all of the really important things needed for adult life. More
More evidence of the stress from league tables & inspection - young children being set targets
TES, 27th January 2012, League tables, inspection against standards and the new stress of an aggressive Ofsted regime are leading to young children now being set targets to improve. What are we doing to our children so that we can seem that we are 'in control.' More

Systems Thinking Videos

Introducing The Systems Thinking Review
Professor John Seddon, MD of Vanguard More

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The era of public service (non-) delivery
Peter Mares interview of John Seddon on ABC radio Australia, 23rd September 2011 More

Current News

Systems Thinking Quarterly Dec 2011 - The wellbeing Issue
This issue of the Quarterly focuses upon wellbeing More
A summary of POLICING IN AUSTERITY, a Vanguard event, Birmingham, 13 September 2011
Simon Caulkin with a write-up from the Policing event held earlier this year More
Read outcome of Guardian online shared services debate
John Seddon took part in the live online Guardian debate on shared services. It makes for disturbing reading. More
Using Systems Thinking to Redesign Food Inspection Work
The Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) has produced this case study on the innovative work done using the Vanguard Method in Great Yarmouth Food Safety More

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Events

Systems Thinking in Service Organisations - University of Hull - (4 days 4 months March 2012)
Systems Thinking in Service Organisations (4-day programme) starting Wednesday 21st March 2012 More
For enquiries please e-mail the Vanguard office or call 01280 822255. We would welcome the chance to publicise other events which you may think would be of interest. Please contact Howard Clark

Book Review

Out of the Crisis
John Seddon reviews W. Edward Deming's classic 'Out of the Crisis' More

Ask The Expert

Jeremy Cox answers
Vanguard's Jeremy Cox answers this month's question: How important to the success of change is the design of the change program itself? More

Submitted Articles

John Seddon: August Newsletter an essay on The Big Society
John Seddon dedicated his August newsletter to worrying developments that will severely impact the development of the Big Society More
The Lean Toolhead Collection
John Seddon has written extensively on the damage caused by Lean toolheads, these articles are now collected together for the first time More