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.

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