NESTA’s new report on how to make good group decisions is particularly important as we navigate working online without the body language that helps us navigate the dynamics of a group, and as we face more systemic issues of representation and ever more complex issues to tackle. It outlines the…

In his book, Rebel Ideas, Matthew Syed, outlines the need to have diverse teams. They bring varied perspectives, including and maybe, particularly when they come from very different walks of life — like an oncologist learning from a soldier’s tactics to tackle a seemingly impossible medical challenge. That’s why I’ve…

At today’s London Policy & Strategy Network session as part of London Challenge Poverty Week, we hosted Trust for London to discover London’s Poverty Profile. London’s Poverty Profile from Trust for London and WPI Economics provides evidence and insight into poverty and inequality in London. Manny Hothi, Chief Executive…

Councils are faced with having to reinvent themselves in times of great uncertainty. Of course, councils are more complex than these archetypes, either through choice as they are testing out different models for different contexts or transitions — zones of innovation — or because they have no choice — moving…

If digital services shape how people work (i.e. Zoom), get around (i.e. Uber), meet others (i.e. Tinder) and go on holiday (i.e. Airbnb), it also creates significant impacts: Financially: Several of these platforms can work out cheaper than the previous incumbents, be it hotels or taxis, but also reduce the…

People will be affected most by how people benefit from economic growth and how well they can adapt to change. We can measure how well benefit from economic growth — i.e. …

Policymakers love a framework. At its best, it provides helpful prompts to work out a problem in a way that codifies lessons learned by others. At worst though, it creates the illusion of being able to structure reality the way that policymakers want.

Increasingly, people are warming to the “small is beautiful”, motto as a way of moving away from the hierarchies of big organisations. People are also seduced by the locals as a better way of organising than the national or the transitional. In his book, Reinventing Organisations, Laloux charts the trajectory…

What if instead of marketing our cities as the best places to do businesses or top destinations for city breaks, we developed identities for our cities as places where people care for each other and which build wellbeing? This may seem like motherhood and applied pie, but remember the…