The document discusses opening up the policy making process. It argues that policy advice often draws from a narrow range of views and evidence and does not ensure practical implementation. It questions whether policy makers are choosing the right tools to address complex problems and truly engaging stakeholders with crucial knowledge needed for execution. The document advocates principles of open policy making, including strengthening outcomes through citizen and business perspectives and involvement of stakeholders to turn ideas into practice. It also discusses methods for open policy making and moving towards a new paradigm that embraces complexity, is vision-oriented, citizen-focused, and enables new alliances through facilitation rather than unilateral action.

1. Opening up policy making

2. The challenge
“Too often policy advice draws from too
narrow a range of views and evidence, and
does not ensure that policy is capable of
practical implementation.”

4. Some questions
Are we sophisticated enough in choosing
the right tools for addressing complex
public problems?
Are we truly engaging, in time, those actors
who have crucial knowledge and who must
take co-ownership for policy execution and
ultimately for generating the intended
outcomes?

5. The way forward: Principles

7. About

9. Public sector innovation
“MindLab will strengthen the outcomes
of public policies through systematic
insight into the perspective of citizens
and businesses, and active involvement
of the stakeholders who can turn new
ideas into practice.”

15. Can you open up an (informal)
Council of Ministers meeting?

22. Open policy making needs
equal parts curation and
orchestration.

23. Open policy making: Methods (1)

24. Open policy making: Methods (2)

26. Some failures and some lessons

27. Opening up policy making…
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28. Towards a new policy paradigm?
Current policy model
Open policy making
(Intelligence-design-choice)
(Design-intelligence-choice)
Resisting complexity
Embracing complexity
Problem-oriented
Vision-oriented
System focus
Citizen focus
Unilateral action
Shaping new alliances
Facilitation
Stewardship
Strategy emphasis
Impact emphasis

29. Ultimately, open policy
making is enabled by an
ambitious senior
management that practices
what it preaches.

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