Towards Policymaking as Designing: Policymaking Beyond Problem-solving and Decision-making

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Abstract

A creative business model treats the challenge as an opportunity to find elegant ways of creating economic activity to support and accelerate the desired transformation. The actions of corporations tend not to be directed towards the interest of the commons, and civic societies rarely self-organize in ways to bring about rapid large-scale sustainable transformations. ChangeLabs is one such platform designed to be a model that drives the development of a new field of Scaled Transformation. Agencies and leaders with large spheres of influence need to use processes that take an aggressive stance towards deep transformation of the system behaviour and key outcomes. The generation of a set of integrated strategies at a high level comprised of strategic framing of the challenges, a theory of scaled transformation and a set of strategic propositions. Closing system gaps through human-centred design and creative optimization. For example, reducing the long waits at the Department of Motor Vehicles through online services.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDesign for Policy
EditorsChristian Bason
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter4
Pages 57-70
Number of pages14
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781315576640
ISBN (Print)9781472413529, 9780367670047
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2014

Keywords

  • Policymaking
  • designing change
  • policy cycles
  • Problem-Framing

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