In local public services there is no transformation without collaboration.  Want to improve health outcomes?  The answer goes way beyond NHS and social care services, and way beyond the public sector.

Need to transform educational performance?  The school system is but one part of a broader human capital strategy.  Want to drive economic performance?  Solving the productivity puzzle in the public sector and communities is as much a part of the solution as private sector-led growth.

This feels self-evident.  So it is puzzling that the art of collaboration still feels undervalued, and the connections between these agendas are often underplayed.  Part of the problem is connectivity: between system leaders, entrepreneurial managers and front-line staff that ‘get it’, and silo-based organisational constraints that don’t.