It is reasonable to assume that the work of governments, businesses and civil society goes better if the people making decisions are well-informed, using reliable facts and strong evidence rather than only hunch and anecdote.
How should we think about the transferability of ideas and methods? If something works in one place and one time, how do we know if it, or some variant of it, will work in another place or another time?
In advance of our session on Systems Mapping: Best Approaches and What Works for Policy Design on Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 2 pm GMT – sign up for free here – IPPO launches its SEPPA Method mapping systems, evidence and power for policy action. Geoff Mulgan and Jeremy Wiliams At IPPO, systems maps are one of the tools we use to help inform better decision-making with evidence. The idea behind them is that maps of this kind allow us to better understand how often complex things work – as well as...
Every democracy at times has to make difficult decisions – making sacrifices or accepting restraints in the longer-term interest of the community. Sometimes these choices are thrown up by emergencies like wars and pandemics. Sometimes they are thrown up by slower moving crises, like reforming pensions or committing to multi-decade strategies on net zero.
