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This website was created by the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI), part of the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV).

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Public Design

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This Handbook for Working Innovatively in Public Administration guides you through the different phases of an innovation process. It contains templates and working documents tailored to the needs of public administrations. They explain various innovation methods, describe what is needed to apply these methods, detail how to actually implement these methods, and highlight what results can be expected. From preparation and team building, to research and brainstorming, to the development and…
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AI4GOV Toolkit

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The AI4GOV Toolkit is aimed at fostering a human-centered and systemic perspective towards the development of public services that integrate artificial intelligence in a meaningful way. The toolkit offers a methodology and specific tools for the application of AI in real public sector projects aimed at solving societal needs, considering technology not as an end but as a means for reaching wider strategic objectives. The tools within this toolkit span throughout four main phases of the design…
This resource is a guide to amplify global health impact from the perspective of a development organisation. It builds on the successes of USAID's work and lays out practical ways to identify opportunities to apply innovation to solve real problems using a portfolio approach. The resource has been co-developed with significant input from USAID colleagues across their health offices, and captures best practices and innovation opportunities, dispels myths and highlights examples of and resources…
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Transformative Innovation Policy Resource Lab

The Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) Resource Lab contains over 250 resources (such as tools, interactive canvases and narrative guides) structured across five components: 1. Systems, anticipation and transformative theory of change 2. Experimentation in policies and programmes 3. Evaluation using transformative outcomes 4. Capabilities - personal, organisation, and facilitating contestation 5. Knowledge communities and infrastructures The resource includes lessons for the design and…
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MOTION Handbook: developing a transformative theory of change

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This handbook introduces actionable knowledge on developing a Transformative Theory of Change by applying a portfolio approach to address a systems innovation perspective for projects and programmes. Tools, methods and lessons learned are based on working hand in hand with EIT Climate-KIC projects around a portfolio of knowledge services for sustainable systems transformation. The step-by-step methodology supports practitioners to design, implement and evaluate projects aimed at achieving…
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Futures Frequency

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Futures Frequency is a workshop method for groups of 8–20 people. This website provides tools for facilitating the workshop either online or in person. There are videos that introduce each theme and the facilitator’s handbook includes detailed steps for facilitating the group assignments. Futures Frequency was developed by Sitra based on input from a development team in various fields. It's purpose is to increase participants’ ability to envisage different futures and take action towards…
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Virtual circular design course: Tool guide

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This toolkit offers a starting point and a framework for uncovering circular potentials and barriers and to potentially identify new circular business models. The tools in this toolkit focus specifically on mapping a company's circular potentials in the value chain it operates within. And it gives priority to understanding, framing and re-fining the value businesses create in the value chain, exploring the interaction with both customers, collaborators and influential stakeholders. The toolkit…
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Strategic Futurist Tools and Frameworks

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This resource contains 11 frameworks and methods used by the Future Today Institute, including: The FTI Forecasting Model How To Think About Time Identifying Key Stakeholders Assumptions vs Knowledge CIPHER Axes of Uncertainty Scenario Planning Guide and Templates Four Laws of Tech Trends 11 Macro Sources of Disruption Velocity of Change: Calculation Guide Futures States Each resource includes guidance and instructions on its use.
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Futuremaker’s toolbox

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This toolbox is a guide for shaping the future and developing organisational operations. It guides users through how to build an organisation’s future capability to ready it to deal with new phenomena. It guides users through all the steps of building a vision and for viewing, interpreting or shaping futures. It contains three phases: Trends and Signals, Interpretation and choices, and Shaping futures. Each tool includes step-by-step guidance and downloadable resources.
This resource is a generative tool for creating new metaphors to help understand the world in new ways, reframe problems, generate new ideas, and imagine different futures. New Metaphors has been developed by the Imaginaries Lab, a design research studio based at Carnegie Mellon University, and working internationally. New Metaphors is a set of 150 cards and a number of simple, fun workshop formats which enable idea generation and new ways of thinking about issues creatively, from specific…