Test, learn, open up
Experimentation, test and learn and open innovation.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Where
- Complexity, decisions and innovation
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Public services learn fastest when they test their assumptions openly, rather than running pilots built only to succeed. Part one covers experimentation: Eric Ries's build, measure, learn loop, the minimum viable product and the choice to pivot or persevere, testable hypotheses from Gothelf and Seiden, and assumption mapping from Bland and Osterwalder, with Dropbox and the government's Humphrey Consult tool as cases. Part two turns to open innovation, from Chesbrough's funnel to why the public sector cannot simply copy the market and Nesta's barriers and enabling mechanisms, with Procter and Gamble and e-Estonia's X-Road showing openness designed in.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish a pilot from an experiment, and use Ries's terms, minimum viable product, validated learning, pivot and persevere, precisely.
- Explain Chesbrough's distinction between closed and open innovation and describe how ideas and value can flow both ways across an organisation's boundary.
- Write a testable hypothesis with a belief, a change, a signal and an exit, and use assumption mapping to choose the riskiest assumption to test first.
- Identify why public sector innovation differs from market innovation and name the barriers in Nesta's taxonomy that stop good ideas surviving.
- Design experiments in public services that are safe to fail, protecting safeguarding, legal duties, consent and a route back to the existing service.
- Plan how to match an enabling mechanism, such as an open call, commissioning for outcomes or decommissioning, to the specific barrier your organisation faces.
The Modules.
1 hour 30 minutes of learning.
- 05Experimentation: Lean Startup, Test and Learn, and Safe-to-FailA pilot is built to succeed; an experiment is built to learn. This module covers Eric Ries's build, measure, learn loop, the minimum viable product and the choice to pivot or persevere, testable hypotheses from Gothelf and Seiden's Lean UX, and assumption mapping from Bland and Osterwalder. It sets out what makes an experiment safe to fail in public services, with Dropbox and the government's Humphrey Consult tool as cases.39 min
- 06Public Sector and Open InnovationInnovation looks different once profit stops driving it. This module moves from Chesbrough's closed and open innovation and his funnel to why the public sector cannot simply copy the market, the levels and drivers of public innovation, and Nesta's barriers and enabling mechanisms, from ideas factories to decommissioning. Procter and Gamble's Connect and Develop and e-Estonia's X-Road show openness designed in deliberately.48 min