Observation
An old observation i’ve never gotten around to blog that resurfaced in a conversation today.
The public sector wants to be like the private sector (control, markets, privatization, middle management, reporting, centralization, branding, r&d) while the private sector wants to be like what the public sector used to be (decentralization, democratic organizations, deep purposes, social responsibility, user innovation, conversations).
Interesting what will end up in the middlespace.
July 20th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Being a student of organisations (at least officially) I’m a bit of a sceptic in this regard: The private companies might try but the greater part of those companies with bounce right back to familiar patterns — there’s a reason they’ve ended there in the first place. And have you ever tried having a conversation with a public sector official?
July 20th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Conversations as in markets are conversations - as in that’s the perspective on the market. As in the customer knows more than we do.
It’s really just a time shift issue - the public sector are trying to be like what huge multinational companies was 10-15 years ago - not recognizing that people have moved on, especially in small organizations.