Episode 5 - Experimenting

Main points - Losing Control movement - 2:00 / 31:00 - Emphasis on evidence-based policy - 5:15 - The difference between Explicit and Tacit knowledge and the importance of place - 6:30 - Cultural barriers to experimentation - 18:45 - Buurtzorg and the need for a "heatshield" - 21:30 - Difference between pilots and experiments / and industrial vs organic approaches - 27:15 - Continuous experimentation/learning - 28:00 - Good things happening around the world - 32:45 - Government becoming an enabler - 33:45 - The challenges of replacing New Public Management with something equally compelling - 34:45 References * Centre for Public Impact * Enablement mindset - Blog post by CPI * Evidence vs experiments - Blog post by CPI * Losing Control movement * Buurtzorg in the UK Adrian Brown - Bio Adrian is huge public sector reform enthusiast. He’s spent more than 15 years working on transformation and performance improvement in government. He’s been a consultant with McKinsey, a Fellow of the Institute for Government in London and a policy advisor to the UK Prime Minister. He’s currently the Executive Director of the Centre for Public Impact - a not-for-profit foundation set up by the Boston Consulting Group. Adrian on Twitter

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Episode 5 - Experimenting is an episode from The Clock and the Cat by Mark Foden.

This episode is 00:37:15 long.

This episode was published on Feb 15, 2019.

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