by Glenn | Sep 28, 2026 | Best practice, Book, business case, Combined Authorities, Competency, CPD, Economic Development Practice, General, Organisation, Organisational development, Performance, Policy, Politics, Professional development, Restructuring
As Andy Burnham prepares to address his first Labour Party Conference as Prime Minister, a new book by economic development practitioner Dr Glenn Athey argues that the argument over whether to devolve power is over. The question now is whether the institutions...
by Glenn | Sep 23, 2026 | Best practice, Book, Combinbed Authorities, Combined Authorities, Competency, CPD, Devolution, Economic Development Practice, Organisation, Organisational development, Performance, Policy, Politics, Professional development
This video highlights my latest book launch for Prosperity In Every Postcode: Build Organisations That Turn Devolution Into Economic Development and Growth. In this video, I cover the motivations for writing the book, that England’s new devolved institutions...
by Glenn | Sep 22, 2026 | Best practice, Book, business case, Combinbed Authorities, Combined Authorities, Competency, CPD, Devolution, Economic Development Practice, Politics, Professional development
If you want to keep the momentum of devolution going and don’t want to see powers and resources taken back by Whitehall in 10 years, you will need to be. The UK government has a bad habit – it abolishes the institutions and structures for local economic...
by Glenn | Sep 11, 2026 | Best practice, Book, business case, Combinbed Authorities, Combined Authorities, Competency, CPD, Devolution, Economic Development Practice, Organisation, Organisational development, Performance, Uncategorized
In the late 1990s I spent the best part of two years inside the engine rooms of economic development. I interviewed chief executives, directors and managers of development agencies in Scotland, London, Belfast and Berlin for my doctorate, and I went looking for the...
by Glenn | Sep 11, 2026 | Book, Organisation, Organisational development, Performance, Policy, Restructuring
Before the promise of local and regional devolution and integrated funding settlements, when money came in competitive pots with the criteria written in Whitehall, the shape of your programme was somebody else’s fault and the honest appraisal was somebody...
