The Art of Exit

Date: 17.04.2012 10:00 - 12:30

Location: Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE

The landscape for public services is changing rapidly. In the context of significant and sustained reductions in public spending, changing public expectations and rising demand, public services have to contend with a very different set of circumstances in which to innovate. In order to create more effective solutions to pressing social needs, public services will need to become more adept at decommissioning – taking resources out of less effective approaches in order to reinvest elsewhere.

'The Art of Exit' is a new research report by Laura Bunt and Charlie Leadbeater that confronts a darker, more disruptive side to innovation - how to shut down or decommission what is currently in place. Without this deliberate and strategic linkage, innovation is likely to remain marginal. Having looked at examples from all over the world of where this link has held, the report presents a new model for truly transformational public innovation and how this can be applied in different contexts.

This practical workshop focused on creative decommissioning and with thoughts from other practitioners grappling with these issues. This event will brought together policymakers and practitioners from across central and local government and public services across the UK to discuss the report and its implications.

Participants:

Charles Leadbeater
Laura Bunt - Nesta
Bill Eggers - Deloitte

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