Working on trade in Mexico from Sao Paulo
Guest blog written by Oscar Benitez We all experienced the turmoil caused by Covid-19 in 2020. We will spend years trying to describe how it became a huge setback for every […]
Failure
Countering Radicalization in France
Guest blog written by Mer Carattini, Sasha Mathew, Imara Salas, Kishan Shah, Katie Wesdyk The PDIA process taught us how to turn a ‘wicked problem’—a highly complex tangle of many […]
It’s about the P’s
Guest blog by Cynthia Steinhauser, an alumnus of the Implementing Public Policy Executive Education Program at the Harvard Kennedy School
Finding Family through Process Improvement in the U.S.
Guest blog written by Maggie Jones Trey’s words hung in the air. Would you like to go to Harvard? A million thoughts ran through my head as I watched the […]
Three Lessons of PDIA, or the Art of Public Policy
Guest blog written by Olga Yulikova It is not surprising to anyone who is a part of the PDIA community that Matt Andrew’s book Building State Capability uses medical metaphors […]
Views of public policy implementation success and failure: Sharing my thoughts
written by Matt Andrews There are many views on what constitutes success and failure in public policy implementation. I have been chewing on these a lot over the last couple […]
How often do public policies really fail? A question to help you escape the policy futility trap
written by Matt Andrews Last week I blogged about the ‘public policy futility trap’ in which countries get stuck when a negative feedback loop institutionalizes itself in the public policy […]
PDIA Notes 1: How we have PDIA’d PDIA in the last five years
written by Matt Andrews We at the Building State Capability (BSC) program have been working on PDIA experiments for five years now. These experiments have been designed to help us learn […]
Why many development initiatives have achievement gaps…and what to do about this
written by Matt Andrews Yesterday I blogged about Hirschman’s Hiding Hand. As I interpret it, a central part of his idea is that many development projects: focus on solving complex […]
Hirschman’s Hiding Hand and Problem Driven Change
written by Matt Andrews I referred to Albert Hirschman’s work on the “Principle of the Hiding Hand” in my class today. It is a great principle, and has real application […]