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. and are bringing 50 innovative doers together for a festival to learn "what it means to shift a system, not just scale a solution".
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We're back with our #SystemInnovation Festival 22!
Come join us with *50* remarkable innovators for honest insights into the practical action of shifting systems in health, education, food, aid+more
Sign up here to claim your place: systeminnovation.org/learning-festi #MakingTheSystemShift
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I think lots of you have felt this way: “On the surface we’re hitting our targets. But my big fear is that nothing fundamental is changing. We’re not shifting the underlying dynamics that are driving the problem in the first place.”
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✏️📏The international public innovation organization of change will run a Learning Lab on "Building capacity for system innovation" during the civicInnovation Conference!
Discover all the partners and learning labs of the conference: civicinnovation.ch/fr/
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"Instead of envisioning, shaping, and investing in a lab as a discrete, protected, special place guided by the work of experts in a specific set of practices, what if the construct of “lab” was re-imagined as shared and accessible transformative learning spaces?"
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Some fresh thinking from @pennyhagen and I on what we're learning about scaling deep and transformative learning in our public sector innovation practice. lrcole.medium.com/public-sector-
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🧠Does anyone have any lovely examples of monitoring and evaluation frameworks/models that focus on the impact, but also lessons learnt, from funded projects? From charity and public sectors, something novel 🙏
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Projects don't change systems
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"Projects are largely successful when they can cut themselves off from or protect themselves from the dysfunctional systems they are a part of. They fail when they can't do that and are crushed by that dysfunctional system. Either way, projects don't change systems."
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Who's doing the most interesting thinking/doing on 'agile ways of working' in government?
Asking for a friend (who's looking for a conference speaker).
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What would you recommend?
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Has anyone got any reading recommendations for policy design 
A lot of the work books I read centre on tech design and acknowledge the gap between tech teams and policy teams, but are often written from perspectives of people who work in tech teams.
A lot of the work books I read centre on tech design and acknowledge the gap between tech teams and policy teams, but are often written from perspectives of people who work in tech teams.1
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from this piece by , who was inspired by 's statement that “Care work is the anticipation of grief."
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Innovation can be sympathetic, additional, long-termist, and nurturing. It doesn’t need to involve “blitz-scaling” or “disrupting”: it can also involve replacing failing systems; removing barriers; creating ease; and retiring the old and midwifing the new
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Policymaking is policy innovation. It is an ongoing process of incremental improvement. Public Sector Innovation is more focused on improving the effectiveness of public institutions. (2/3)
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It’s like ‘toilets’ and ‘public toilets’. So ‘public innovation’ is ‘innovation’ but everyone can access it, and someone else has to clean up afterwards.
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“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”
— John le Carre
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How public sector organisations work with each other, their partners and the people they serve to bring good ideas to life.
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How would you define public innovation?
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"There is a big misconception that innovation is about being incredibly creative and coming up with an idea all by yourself. Most innovation is about finding something that is new, that people might want, that isn’t where you are at the moment." –
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Very much looking forward to this week in Berlin creativebureaucracy.org Fab line up with & many more!
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Who's doing the most interesting thinking about 'change management' (in the public sector) out there?
Context: I'm preparing a talk on change management, have some thoughts/experiences of my own but I'm also trying to cast a wide net and see what else exists out there.
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Designers around the world… I’m looking for your best case studies featuring design in public services. Insights, actions, but most importantly impact.
Looking for provocative cases with hard numbers in terms of efficiencies created, or experiences improved. Please RT!
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"Best practices are extraordinarily dangerous if applied to an environment that has radically changed."
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we mapped out a load more methods and approaches and the effect is hopeful if a little bit mind-boggling. states-of-change.org/resources/land
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the next wave of innovative methods that could improve the way policy is made, tested and delivered
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We're launching our new experimental policy design methods cards! We've been scanning the horizon for the next wave of methods that will change the future of policymaking.
What do you think?
Words - @SanjanSabherwal @sharman47
openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2022/05/18/lau
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The Design and Policy Network is "a multi-disciplinary network bringing together researchers and practitioners exploring and developing new forms of public policy design"
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We're excited to announce that the Lab will launch on May 30th. Working together with partners, we aim to transform debates on key policy issues through radical innovation and deep collaboration and be a space for new ideas, methods, and ways of doing
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"Both design and policy in my experience are acts of synthesis, of bringing things together through iteration, sense-making and (increasingly in policy) involve experimentation and exploration"
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On the imagination required to rethink what policy is and what it's for.
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“Designing policy without an imaginative sense of where you are going means your best efforts will land you toward the front of the status quo, but not ahead of it" -
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Who are your favorite speakers/writers/thinkers on democracy these days?
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On how to rethink policy with a 20th century government facing a 21st century economy by
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"If what we need is a paradigm shift in public policy, incrementalism won’t be enough.
If the problem sits at the level of the system’s logic then our solutions have to work at that deep layer; we can’t just tweak existing policies"
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Record a call with a colleague and write up the notes
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you could do a zoom call about it with a friend and record that and upload to youtube and/or transcribe that!
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Pair up with someone with different strengths to your own!
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Most important for me has been accepting my nature; and working with people having a different nature. So writing my book, we explored in dialogue, I used dictation software to capture our dialogue, and he did editing .
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Find a pen pal!
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Once I've finished a project, mentally, it's gone 
I only ever write work up if I do pair-writing where a pal interviews me about the project, transcribes it and then I wrangle the notes into something publish-able (and I do the same for them)
I only ever write work up if I do pair-writing where a pal interviews me about the project, transcribes it and then I wrangle the notes into something publish-able (and I do the same for them)1
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So many people don't have time - or can't protect the time - to write up what they do so they can reflect on it and others can learn from it.
What do you do?
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I wish writing up things was not so necessary. I am so much happier just doing / teaching / researching / making and write up about 5% of what I do... And even that feels like a distraction from doing the work 
. I value the reflection though - what are good practices for this?
. I value the reflection though - what are good practices for this?1
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Working at full capacity isn't as efficient as you think it is.
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Scheduling your team at 100% capacity is a great way to ensure that nothing will be delivered on time.
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