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Laura from Policy Profession has updated the guidance on Working with Ministers.
How the DWP Digital Academy is teaching the Discovery phase.
The 2014 annual report on progress on the Government Digital Strategy.
Ron Ashkenas in the Harvard Business Review is looking at whether we've figured out the difference between change and transformation (spoiler: no).
Research to Action summarise findings about what policy makers want from academics (via the Alliance for Useful Evidence).
Emi Kolawole enjoyed an exercise to design for self-discovery (HT @samrye_enspiral).
New to us: Andy Polaine's collection of research and experience prototyping tools and tips.
Tweets of the week
@christianbason What we are seeing here is the emergence of a new profession - policy design #idfberlin
— giulio quaggiotto (@gquaggiotto) January 19, 2015
Nick Macpherson not a big fan of contingency planning multiple scenarios for election. ‘I leave that sort of thing to Cabinet Office’.
— Dr Catherine Haddon (@cath_haddon) January 19, 2015
"This is about managing the avoidable and avoiding the unmanageable" @RockefellerFdn Judith Rodin #ResilienceDividend
— Nesta (@nesta_uk) January 19, 2015
@csigaloff @christianbason moving from best-practice (retrospective) to next-practice (prospective) #superwicked #innovation
— Prof Andrea Siodmok OBE (@AndreaSiodmok) January 20, 2015
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