What we’re learning about building a new future for government in Europe Read the report What we learned in 2022 In 2021-22, we worked with a range of partners on topics including innovation, digital… Read more
Type: Reports and toolkits
Human learning systems: public service for the real world
Are you fed up with being managed by targets that don’t reflect the lives of the people you help? Of writing plans and budgets that you know are a fantasy? If so, you can choose to do public management differently. Read more
Human learning systems: a practical guide for the curious
Explore learning as a management strategy Our guide provides practical advice to help any organisation working in public service apply the Human Learning Systems approach to their work. In doing so, they will be better equipped to explore,… Read more
Public Impact Fundamentals
Discover how you can achieve public impact using a tried and tested, simple framework: The Public Impact Fundamentals. Get the resources When it comes to public impact there are three things that matter most. We… Read more
Public Impact Fundamentals teaching materials
We know that public policy students aspire to have impactful careers. But policy development can be pretty complex and there are a host of overly theoretical frameworks out there that just add to the complexity. For this reason, we’ve developed… Read more
Public Impact Fundamentals starter kit
We’ve developed a range of tools to help you use the Public Impact Fundamentals framework in your day-to-day work to improve the impact of policies Download the tools Explore the… Read more
Storytelling for Systems Change: Listening to Understand
“Stories, in their many shapes and forms, are a part of human nature and humans are immersed in them: they are experienced as deeply individual and as integral to relationships between people; they provide explanations, meaning, and entertainment; people die… Read more
How to fail (forward) framework
In government, learning from failure is the critical link between innovation and impact. Download the report The Centre for Public Impact and the Aspen Institute Center for Urban Innovation worked together to understand how… Read more
The Opportunity Project for Cities sprint toolkit: A guide for community-driven innovation sprints in local governments
About the sprint toolkit This toolkit was compiled to support the Opportunity Project for Cities (TOPC) program, a 22-week innovation sprint through which local governments work with community and tech partners to develop open-source tools that leverage data to address… Read more
Human Learning Systems – A practical guide to doing public management differently
Last year, we worked with several organisations to release an e-book – Human Learning Systems: Public Service for the Real World. This had one key message: if we want to achieve real outcomes in the world, then we… Read more