1. 2. Bringing in new
insights and ideas
from outside
3. Using agile,
more iterative
approaches to plan
for implementation
Bringing in new insights,
evidence and ideas by
learning from other
sectors and disciplines
• new insights e.g.
behavioural economics
• new disciplines e.g.
Design
• new evidence e.g. What
works and data science
• new models e.g. co-
production
Broadening the audience
we talk to e.g. users,
experts and thought
leaders (UK and
international)
•Social media
•Crowd sourcing
•E-consultations
Understanding and
anticipating impact in the
real world
•Prototyping, testing,
iterating e.g. RCT
•User journeys
•Scenario modelling
Open Policy Making is about developing policy that is
well informed, creative and tested in the real world

2. A presumption of openness needs to be balanced
against the licence to try new things and policy
context
2
Policy contextPolicy context
Sensitive/ classified Public/ routine
LicencetoinnovateLicencetoinnovate
LowHigh
Broadening the range of people we engage
Bringing in new insights and ideas
Using agile, iterative approaches to
plan for implementation
Multidisciplinary team - external
Evidence
gathering
Expert engagement
Consultation
Public engagement
Internal challenge, e.g. policy scrums
Scenario testing
Testing, iterating
Coproduction
Insight tools e.g. ethnography
Bring in external
expertise
Stakeholder
segmentation
Design tools e.g. user journeys
Crowd sourcing
Publishing the evidence
Policy Labs,
“hubs”
Social media listening
Data science