CIVICWORKS
Jack Strachan(Re)thinking civic bureaucracy, institutional reform, dynamic capabilities, policymaking and technology.
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The Public Design Gap: Are we really hiring for transformation?
This thinking was presented as part of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose’s Rethinking the State Forum, 2025.
There’s a question that doesn’t get asked enough in conversations about government reform: are the people we’re...
Policy Futures Studios: Building An Anticipatory State
Over the last few years, I’ve been exploring the shape of mission-driven governments and the need for a fundamentally different approach to decision-making—one capable of navigating uncertainty, not simply delivering outputs.
In Unfit for...
What the UK fintech market can learn from Korea – and itself
Despite the prevailing assumption that economic policy exists to fix markets, correct failures, patch inefficiencies, and generally take a step back, every so often a reminder appears that market-shaping is not only possible, but already un...
Practice notes on including citizens in the design process
Citizen participation? Hell no!
Involving citizens in public design is much more than running an “open” process. It is about redistributing agency – enabling people to shape decisions, define problems, and participate in making change hap...
Beyond the waterfall state: why missions need a different decision-making architecture
In a previous article, I argued that the UK government is structurally unfit for uncertainty – taking 21st-century challenges, evaluating them with 20th-century tools, and responding within 19th-century institutions – built for a different...
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