Thursday, June 21, 2012

UK Cabinet Office on lean government: “Test, Learn, Adapt”

This morning on Radar, Nat linked linked up a new UK Cabinet Office paper on what he calls “randomised trials for public policy.” We’ve embedded the paper below Ben Goldacre, a writer and speaker at O’Reilly’s Strata Conference, co-wrote with Laura Haynes, Owain Serviceand David Torgerson.

Jason Kristufek also read it and blogged that it’s a lesson in the lean startup mentality in government. Or, to put it another way, a new articulation of principles for lean government.

Test Learn Adapt