POLIS BLOG
Success factors of Government Innovation Labs
Alexander Grünwald from GovLabAustria provides his reflections on the three success factors outlined above and how they are incorporated in the work of GovLabAustria.
The key success factors of Government Innovation Labs
Government Innovation Labs (GIL) use creativity as well as systematic innovation processes and projects to find solutions to problems citizens and public administration face.
Political Intrapreneurship: Stage 1 – Understanding the party as a system
If Political Entrepreneurs do not fully understand critical aspects of the political system they want to disrupt, they will fail. And by understanding I mean a deep intellectual and emotional appreciation; an intimacy that is comparable to love – even though sometimes mixed with hate for some aspects of it.
Political Intrapreneurship: An Introduction
Political parties are the most complex social organisations on earth. They are among the most long-lived, and among the most structurally conservative. All those attributes are the reason why political parties are incredibly hard to innovate.
Tools for implementing and evaluating human-centred policies
This blog focuses on tools that help policy-makers to implement and evaluate a newly designed policy.
Tools for designing and testing policies human-centered policy delivery
In our last Blog, we introduced you to a selection of tools and methods to identify the needs of users/citizens in a human-centered policy-making process. This blog will focus on approaches that will help policy-makers
Tools for defining problems and identifying needs in human-centered policy delivery
In this blog we will introduce you to three methods that can be applied in the first three steps of the human-centred policy-delivery process we developed. Also, we will introduce you to real-life examples in which these selected tools were already applied in the public sector.
A coherent approach towards human-centred policy delivery
In this blog, we will provide you with a coherent process on how to systematically integrate citizens in policy-making and -delivery.
Human-centred design in policy-making
In one of our last blogs we argued that the political organisation of the future will provide citizens and stakeholders with opportunities to develop their offers (e.g. policies) in close collaboration with them. From the
Four elements of the political party of the future we already see today
This is the third and last part of a blog series on the political organisation of the future. In the last blog we outlined a framework on the political organisation of the future. We argued
The political organisation of the future
In the second part of “The Political Organisation of the Future” we will shed light on the organisational aspects impacted by the trends desc.
The 3 trends shaping the political organisation of the future
This is the first part of a blog series on the political organisation of the future. 2020 was exceptional in many respects: a global pandemic, economic downturn, and new anti-democratic movements entering the stage. But
Do you need a Head of Innovation in Political Parties?
There are different sources of innovation within a political party, but at the end of the day: Who is responsible for driving innovation within a party organisation?
Insights into our first prototype testings
In the last blog we provided you with insights into the focus groups we conducted in the last months. Based on the generated insights we decided to build testable prototypes for a learning experience that leverages network effects, enables self-directed learning, and is radically practical.
How does an ideal learning experience look like?
In our focus group discussions with political professionals, we tested five hypotheses to understand what kind of political training they need. The sessions clearly indicated that a new approach is necessary.
There is a need, but…
In this blog of the series “The Evolution of Polis” we talk about our learnings after meeting with political professionals from across Europe and discussing what it takes to transform political training and development.
How to Innovate Political Parties
Based on our research for POLIS we have crated a spherical model of party innovation which follows an open innovation approach.
How we want to innovate training and development in the political sphere
Building innovative solutions that meet the needs of political professionals and democracy in the 21st century.
Why we started POLIS
In this new blog series we will have a look at the evolution of POLIS, starting with why we think that professional training and development in politics is up for an update.
The Five Ultimate Things You Can Do to Innovate Your Political Party
Wrapping up our series on innovating political parties we’ll provide you with a final short guide.