By Edward E. Lawler and Chris Worley.In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. Built to Change focuses on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change. As Lawler and Worley point out, organizations that foster continuous change are closely connected to their environments, reward experimentation, learn about new practices and technologies and commit to continuously improving performance.

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National Health Service staff in Wales have been congratulated after new figures showing that Trusts across Wales have met the target that no patient should wait more than 12 months for inpatient treatment or a first outpatient appointment. The end of the year waiting times have been described as a record achievement.The new figures show a big drop in the last year in the number of people waiting more than a year. In March last year there were 840 people facing long waits for inpatient care. The number of people waiting over 12 months for a first outpatient appointment has fallen from 13,860 last March to just 15 now. All of those are Welsh residents waiting for an appointment from an English NHS Trust.

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With Scotland facing a big reduction in its share of European structural funds, the Scottish Parliament has launched an inquiry into how future rounds of funding should be distributed. The investigation will also look at how to make best use of the money that is available.The Parliament’s European and External Relations Committee wants to take written evidence on how best to spend the funds, which were worth over a billion pounds to Scotland from 2000 until this year. Now, because of the enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 member states, the money available for Scotland could be cut by as much as 55 per cent over the next six years.

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