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
Type: Reports and toolkits
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
Engaging the Public on Climate Change: What We’ve Learned
This article is part of a series. Read the funding perspective on Public Engagement on Climate Change from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation here. In 2015, the Paris Agreement raised global ambition with a target to limit warming since… Read more
Busting Bureaucracy in health and social care: understanding and leading cultural change to solve a complex problem
It is hardly breaking news to note that many feel the level of bureaucracy in the English health and social care system is too high. We know that bureaucracy grows in large, hierarchical organisations, and the health and care system… Read more