Learning to embrace the F Word - #failure
Andy Reed OBE
Strategic advisor at Sajeimpact. Former MP for Loughborough. Chair - Leics Business and Skills Partnership Business Board - Dir. Sports Think Tank. Chair - Sport for Development Coalition. Chair - Active Together
New event aims to use failure to help revolutionise the third sector
Upshot, have teamed up with the Sports Think Tank, an independent think tank dedicated to UK sporting policy, have joined forces to curate ‘The F Word’, an event which seeks to explore how third sector organisations can work together to learn from their failures and develop best practice strategies for dealing with them.
Held at London’s City Hall on October 19, the one-day conference will bring together organisations from the world of sport, government and beyond to discuss the potential for adopting ‘Black Box Thinking’ within the third sector.
The strategy has been used primarily within the airline industry, where information provided through aircraft data recorders has been used to aid the development of new best practice documentation. Prominent journalist and broadcaster, Matthew Syed, is a particular advocate of this approach, having published a book on the subject in September 2015.
If adopted in the third sector, organisations would be able to take a similarly analytic approach to industrial failures, with companies joining forces to ensure the same mistakes are not made again in future.
The event will give industry representatives the opportunity to hear from a number of prominent speakers, including a senior representative from the London Mayor’s Office, Google and leading UK charities. There will be further opportunities to take part in extensive workshops to analyse previous practices employed by third sector bodies.