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11 June 2020

OPSI seeks cases and examples of innovation management

Do you know about real-world cases and examples of innovation management? OPSI would like to hear from you. We are starting work with Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency to explore what good innovation management looks…

Ed Straw

26 May 2020

Systemic Governing – Applied systems thinking in practice

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Guest blog from the Applied Systems Thinking in Practice Group, School of Engineering & Innovation, The Open University (UK) Systems thinking in times of complex challenges The Covid-19 pandemic has shown what governments can do…

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Rebecca Santos

12 December 2019

Innovation in education governance: Toward a Learning System in Wales

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Wales is in the thick of a major education reform process focused on large-scale school improvement. With such an ambitious agenda, the challenge wasn’t just about getting the policy right in the first place, it…

Rebecca Santos

28 November 2019

How to make a public sector organisation a ‘Learning Organisation’?

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Wales is in the midst of a major education reform process. As we know, good education policy is not about perfection on the page, it’s about what happens in the classroom. This is why Wales…

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Rebecca Santos

15 July 2019

‘Walking the walk’: Welsh Education Directorate becomes a ‘Learning Organisation’

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For better or worse, the minutiae of government operations can easily fly under the radar of the average person. Not so, in the domain of education. The success or failure of an education system hits…

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Angela Hanson

5 March 2019

Designing for a mission-oriented government in Estonia

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A reflection on a workshop co-designed with Piret Tõnurist and Kevin Richman as part of a programme led by Piret Tõnurist. Building on OPSI’s ongoing systems work, including in Scotland, Finland, and Slovenia, the team travelled…

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