Methods Archives - Observatory of Public Sector Innovation https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/tag/methods/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:45:29 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 From Recommendations to Real Change: How the Innovation Booster Helps Public Servants Transform Services  https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/from-recommendations-to-real-change-how-the-innovation-booster-helps-public-servants-transform-services/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/from-recommendations-to-real-change-how-the-innovation-booster-helps-public-servants-transform-services/#respond Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:45:22 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=45089 A challenge every government faces  Every citizen has a story about a time when public services felt distant, bureaucratic, or designed for the system rather than for them. We’ve all been there — facing a form we can’t understand, an office we can’t access, or a process that seems to serve itself rather than its purpose.  Governments across the OECD know this too. That is why, one year ago, OECD countries came together to adopt the Recommendation on Human-Centred Public Administrative Services. Its ambition...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/from-recommendations-to-real-change-how-the-innovation-booster-helps-public-servants-transform-services/feed/ 0 Missions & Transitions: Insights from the Netherlands https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/missions-transitions-insights-from-the-netherlands/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/missions-transitions-insights-from-the-netherlands/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:55:10 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=44452 Systemic challenges like climate change, sustainable agriculture, and a future-proof and digital economy require governments to go beyond traditional approaches. At RVO, the Netherlands Entreprise Agency, we’ve embraced transition management and mission portfolio management to guide our role in these dynamic transitions. Our journey in operationalising these approaches has shown us that addressing complex societal challenges requires more than predefined frameworks or traditional approaches. By combining adaptive structures, continuous learning processes, and collaborative engagement, we...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/missions-transitions-insights-from-the-netherlands/feed/ 0 Towards a Futures Guidebook: A customisable curriculum for anticipatory governance https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/towards-an-anticipatory-guidebook/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:16:43 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=42664 The need for strategic foresight and anticipatory governance cannot be overstated. Governments worldwide are grappling with the challenge of preparing for future uncertainties while ensuring their policies and strategies are resilient and adaptive. The OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) is working to develop a curriculum and guidebook to bolster anticipatory governance capabilities based on our ongoing learnings from project LIMinal, with the governments of Lithuania, Italy, and Malta. Our team extensively reviewed examples...

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]]> Innovation Portfolio Management in the Public, Non-profit Sector https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-management-public-non-profit-sector/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-management-public-non-profit-sector/#respond Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:33:42 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=38145 A matter of methods, mindsets, and mechanisms. Why innovation portfolio management? Innovation Portfolio Management has long been used by the private sector to improve returns on investments. The potential of using the same approach to improve social returns is huge. A growing number of OECD Member countries and organisations in the international development sector are exploring innovation portfolio management. Follow, for example, the exciting work of OECD-OPSI, OECD INDEF, CGIAR, UNDP, UNICEF and others. Based...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-management-public-non-profit-sector/feed/ 0 Launch of Rules as Code forum for government officials https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/launch-of-rules-as-code-forum-for-government-officials/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/launch-of-rules-as-code-forum-for-government-officials/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:38:25 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=23455 Last week, the OPSI hosted a Rules as Code meet-up for government and inter-governmental organisation (IGO) officials. The meet-up was the first of several that the OPSI intends to host in support of a growing movement in public administration inspired by the promise of Rules as Code (RaC). We at OPSI believe in the promise of RaC as an emergent approach, something we explored in our RaC primer. We think that this is something which...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/launch-of-rules-as-code-forum-for-government-officials/feed/ 1 The Diversity of Design Toolkits in the Public Sector https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/the-diversity-of-design-toolkits-in-the-public-sector/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/the-diversity-of-design-toolkits-in-the-public-sector/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:35:05 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=23291 Christian Bason, Ph.D., is the CEO of the Danish Design Centre Editor’s note: The OPSI has partnered with the Danish Design Centre to further explore the application of tools and methods to public sector challenges. This article explores the varied spectrum of design disciplines and practices and provides guidance on how to choose the best design method, drawing from the diversity of design toolkits in the OPSI Toolkit Navigator. It also signals what is next...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/the-diversity-of-design-toolkits-in-the-public-sector/feed/ 4 OPSI Toolkit Navigator becomes more social https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/toolkit-navigator-becomes-more-social/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/toolkit-navigator-becomes-more-social/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:48:24 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=22976 Since the launch of the Toolkit Navigator in November 2018, we have maintained it as a live and continuously growing resource and built up an active community of fellow tool and method experts and enthusiasts. In addition to adding new toolkits, including many submitted by our community, as well as encouraging reviews of existing toolkits from practitioners who have experience with the toolkits, we look forward to Toolkit Navigator enhancements in 2021. We are happy...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/toolkit-navigator-becomes-more-social/feed/ 0 Innovation facets: different tools for different aims https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-facets-different-tools-for-different-aims/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-facets-different-tools-for-different-aims/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2019 08:40:31 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=9454 Abraham Maslow once wrote, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”[1] This snappy quote captures the insight that our behaviour tends to be shaped by the tools we have at hand, and the tools we have at hand shape how we see the world and what is possible. In this post, I would like to explore our emerging thinking...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-facets-different-tools-for-different-aims/feed/ 1 Roll call: ‘Innovation 101’ webinar to build innovation skills https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/roll-call-innovation-101-webinar-to-build-innovation-skills/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/roll-call-innovation-101-webinar-to-build-innovation-skills/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:04:16 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=1179 Sign-up to OPSI's webinar to build your innovation skills.

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/roll-call-innovation-101-webinar-to-build-innovation-skills/feed/ 14 A Toolkit by Any Other Name https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/toolkit-taxonomy/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/toolkit-taxonomy/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:35:07 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=1073 What is in a name? Would a toolkit by any other name seem as useful? In this post, I delve into what comprises innovation “toolkits”—and make a stab at classifying them. What is the difference between a playbook and a manual? This taxonomy development is a step in building our resource to help public sector innovators navigate, sequence, and tweak tools and methods to facilitate their innovation journeys. In one of my previous blog posts...

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