People across the civil service, public and private sectors are delivering and working using Open Policy Making tools, techniques and design thinking. Here can read about their learnings and findings in the field.
How can we find and develop ideas that are truly different to the status quo? It’s a question that many policymakers ask themselves, either to seek new ways to improve policy outcomes or to plan for the unexpected. Typically, we …
We recently wrote about how Collective Intelligence tools can be applied to complex policy areas. This blog is the first in a series of guest posts from policy teams sharing their experiences of working with our Collective Intelligence Lab. We …
For the independent review of children’s social care, we were asked to scratch beneath the surface, by looking at wider family contexts, to understand the impact of the system on the families who navigate it.
In late February I tested Policy Lab’s new ‘Government as a System’ toolkit at the UK Policy Profession’s annual Policy Excellence Group. It was our first opportunity to expose Policy Lab’s latest tool for systems change with some of the most senior UK policy officials.
It’s important to pack light when testing prototypes across the country. As well as being practical, you have to leave weighty assumptions on the platform at, in our case, Euston or Kings Cross. Over the last few months Policy …
You might remember when ‘selfie’ was declared the word of the year by the Oxford dictionaries. Shortly after, the term ‘shelfie’ (a photo of your bookshelf)
It has been some time since our last blog. The team have had their heads down (or, rather, their sharpies out) working alongside a range of departments on a dozen really interesting and interactive projects. We've supported them take prototypes …
...in our various projects over the last year. We’ve produced this Policy Lab predictions calendar. Some ideas aren’t necessarily new but we think we will see an increase in their...
...build a working digital product in 4 days. Instead the team focussed on designing smaller elements of a digital service, something we could take into user research to learn from....
Platforms through partnerships I’ve been thinking recently about what we can learn from Government Digital Service’s organising principle of ‘Government as a Platform’. This is the idea of shared digital systems or an open platform, first coined by Tim O’Reilly …