Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
Chartered surveyors have their chartership, lawyers and engineers have their skills widely recognised. What if there was equivalent professional recognition for policy officials? It’s an interesting question – read on to find out the results of a ‘Lab Light’ workshop …
A few weeks ago, we told you about the Open Ideas Days that Policy Lab was planning to support the Deputy Prime Minister’s Northern Futures project. They took place on October 16th: check out a moment-by-moment account here and a …
On October 16th 2014, Policy Lab held open ideas days in 8 cities across the north of England, holding discussions and gathering ideas for the Deputy Prime Minister's Northern Futures project.
Northern Futures is a project close to the Deputy Prime Minister’s heart. He announced it in August: an open call for people with great ideas about how we can make northern cities into vibrant, innovative hubs to stoke growth across the whole …
Policy Lab is bringing design thinking to Government. It's about connecting civil servants with outside design experts and upskilling civil servants themselves. Following a really successful collaborative workshop on police digitization where Sean Miller ran an excellent prototyping session, I …
A couple of weeks ago, friends of Policy Lab gathered together to celebrate progress on the Lab's first project - and made a surprise announcement of the second major project! Read on to find out what we'll be doing with …
What do you get when you put a graphic designer, chief constable, digital expert and a futurologist in a room and let their creative juices flow?
As followers of our Twitter will know, this week OPM have been at Civil Service Live in London.
At a recent meeting with Ben Terrett (Director of Design at the Government Digital Service) I was reminded of the importance of sharing ideas. ‘You’ve got to blog,’ he said, so here is the Policy Lab’s first post. It also coincides with Nesta’s i-teams report, which is sharing best practice from around the world as part of a growing community of innovation teams bringing new approaches to Government. We’ve received a lot of interest already from around the world to share our thinking and we also welcome others getting in touch.