Getting ready for radical efficiency

Download the Getting Ready for Radical Efficiency booklet (PDF 3.43MB)

That Local Authorities are faced with making tough decisions and harsh efficiencies goes without saying. Radical Efficiency represents an opportunity ffor local authorities to transform public services and create a positive agenda for change whilst money is tight. It is a chance to improve outcomes for users and save money at the same time. The radical efficiency process can be undertaken by any local authority with an appetite to do much better for users, to challenge itself, and to do so in a way that will win executive and political support for radical change.

Innovation Unit and Nesta's Radical Efficiency programme started life as a research project, looking across the globe for examples of innovation that deliver different, better, lower cost services. This international horizon scan did two important things: it proved that much better outcomes for users that deliver significant savings are possible; and it taught us something about how those innovators went about it - and how we could, too.

This booklet is grounded in the evidence we have generated to show that the radical efficiency framework can help generate much better outcomes for users. It is also about the tools and conditions and processes that will allow radical efficiency to be successful in your area.

Published
June 2012

Authors
Innovation Unit and Nesta