Radical Efficiency a Practical Guide - Nesta

RADICAL EFFICIENCY IN THE UK 39RADICAL EFFICIENCYIN THE UKInnovation Unit and NESTA have been working with localauthorities across the UK to develop practical methodologiesfor doing radical efficiency in practice. These can helppractitioners simply to challenge the ‘radicalness’ of existingideas or to work with them over an extended period toconceive, design, prototype and implement new approaches.Changing thinkingInnovation Unit’s work with Croydon’s Total Place team tookthe form of a workshop. This enabled participants to ‘get inside’the radical efficiency model and understand its relevance toto tackling their own, real-life challenges. The workshop thensimulated different, important aspects of radical efficiency,such as generating new insights and re-imagining who you arereally serving. This allows participants to test the impact oftheir existing ideas for improvement and cost-cutting – and todevelop radically efficient new ones. This approach has beenused with groups of 10-100 people in service areas from healthto education and social care.We have run these workshops with the Royal College of GeneralPractitioners Leadership Programme, Sutton Council SeniorManagement Group, Central Bedfordshire education team andsocial care professionals from East of England local authoritiesamongst others.