June 25, 2025

Learning While Delivering

What if post-implementation reviews fueled smarter systems? Learn how to turn routine reviews into tools for real learning and better public outcomes.

June 18, 2025

Challenging the Default

This edition looks at how small, risk-avoidant decisions reinforce the status quo and offers four ways to turn risk into a driver of progress.

June 11, 2025

The Bottlenecks You Don’t See

Bottlenecks stall progress and shrink impact. Learn how to spot them early, cut through noise, and speed up decisions without adding complexity.

June 4, 2025

Operationalizing Scale

How to scale solutions without losing their core by adapting to complexity, influencing systems, and designing for long-term impact.

May 28, 2025

The Einstellung Effect

Explore why we often stick with familiar solutions and discover simple ways to encourage fresh thinking in policy and program design.

May 21, 2025

Building Collective Ownership

Discover how collective ownership drives system-level impact by replacing individual control with shared accountability. Explore five practical ways to align teams, share decisions, and sustain change.

May 14, 2025

Change What Matters

A practical guide to finding high-leverage points in systems—small, strategic shifts that can unlock outsized impact in programs, partnerships, and policies.

May 7, 2025

Think About Failure First

Learn how inversion thinking—focusing on what could go wrong—can strengthen solution design, prevent costly mistakes, and drive more resilient outcomes.

April 30, 2025

How to See More

Gain deeper insight into complex challenges by drawing on multiple perspectives—across roles, sectors, and lived experiences—to uncover hidden dynamics and design smarter, more resilient solutions.

April 23, 2025

Six Ways to Unlock Creativity

A guide for social impact leaders on how to rethink solution design by combining creativity, systems thinking, and bold operational strategies—featuring insights, tools, and Finland’s Housing First case study.

April 16, 2025

How to Shift the Status Quo Without Breaking the System

Discover how to shift entrenched systems by designing with their constraints—turning resistance into momentum for lasting change.

April 9, 2025

Creating Space for Innovation with Current Funding

Uncover ways traditional funding tools can be reimagined to unlock innovation, flexibility, and impact in public systems.

April 2, 2025

What Happens After the Idea

Explores why strong systems and operational capacity are essential to turning bold ideas into real-world impact—and how to design with execution in mind.

March 26, 2025

Why Specificity Is a High Leverage Point in Policy Design

An exploration of how putting people—not systems—at the center of policy design leads to more targeted, impactful, and measurable social outcomes.

March 19, 2025

How to Enable Innovation in Program and Policy Design

Discover how to break systemic barriers to innovation in policy and program design with practical strategies for experimentation, risk management, and scalable impact.

March 12, 2025

How a Theory of Change Helps You Test, Iterate, and Improve

A well-designed theory of change maps the steps to impact, challenges assumptions, and adapts in real time to drive meaningful, system-wide results.

March 5, 2025

How Policy Shapes Systems

Exploring how policies shape systems, influence decisions, and create lasting impact—because better policies build better futures.

February 26, 2025

Why Co-Design Beats Top-Down Thinking

Co-design drives better policies by involving stakeholders in creating effective, inclusive solutions.

February 19, 2025

The Power and Pitfalls of KPIs

KPIs shape systems, influence decisions, and measuring the wrong things can lead to unintended consequences.

February 12, 2025

Housing Affordability: A Systems Perspective

A systems-driven approach to solving the housing affordability crisis with policy, innovation, and execution strategies.