Blanchard K, Carlos J P, Randolph ALooks closely at the three keys to empowerment – sharing information, creating autonomy through boundaries and replacing hierarchy with teams. Employs an easily accessible question and answer format. Outlines the promises and challenges of each step, and provides thought-provoking questions, clear advice and activities that will help the reader create an empowerment culture.
Three pioneering urban regeneration companies have had their progress approved in a new report.The three pilot companies in Liverpool, East Manchester and Sheffield were set up following the call by Lord Rogers’ Urban Task Force for action to rejuvenate urban areas.
Local councils, private contractors and organisations with an interest in local government procurement and commissioning are being invited to put their case to a new taskforce.The Local Government Procurement Taskforce has now begun its review, with the aim of identifying and recommending best practice in what is a fast-changing sector, due to the growth of e-procurement possibilities.