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Mar 20, 2024 · Executive summary. Innovation in data analytics and AI could be transformative for project delivery. The volume of project data created through and about public investment is our great strength...
This project was funded by the Behavioural Insights Team. If you would like to follow up any of the ideas, opinions or proposals in this report, please email info@bi.team. Since most of our knowledge and experience concerns the UK government, many of our examples and recommendations concern the UK.
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- What is futures and why does it matter?
- Other Futures support available in government
Policymaking that stands the test of time.
We support civil servants to think about the future through our resources, training, advisory service, networks, reports on specific issues and technology horizon scanning service. We are part of the Government Office for Science (GO-Science).
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Everyone in the Civil Service has a responsibility to think about the future in the work they do. Policy decisions made today have long-term consequences. However, the future in which these decisions have an impact is uncertain.
Futures thinking can be applied to strategy development, risk analysis, and organisational development too.
•‘Futures’, Futures studies or Futures thinking refers to systematic approaches to thinking about the future.
•‘Foresight’ refers to the specific act of applying futures tools, processes or methods. ‘Foresight’ is also the brand the Government Office for Science uses for our long-running series of projects looking at the evidence around big cross-cutting issues, and exploring future possibilities.
Many departments have their own Futures or Horizon Scanning teams. You can connect with others from across the public sector with an interest in Futures by joining our Heads of Horizon Scanning Network.
To support strategic long-term thinking in government, GO-Science collaborates with the Cabinet Office through the Foresight team in the Joint Data and Analysis Centre (JDAC). The JDAC Foresight team works across government departments on major cross-cutting issues, provides Foresight expertise within the Cabinet Office and incubates analysis in JDAC.
KEY MESSAGES. • Under the UK’s constitutional monarchy, the Government runs the country by implementing policies and is held to account by Parliament. • A ‘government policy’ is a plan or course of action by the Government. • Legislation is law.
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Jul 24, 2020 · Major projects in government are large-scale development initiatives that aim to modernise and strengthen the UK’s infrastructure: for example, the high speed rail programme (HS2) at the Department for Transport, the biometrics programme at the Home Office, and the Ministry of Defence’s Queen Elizabeth programme to deliver two new aircraft ...
May 17, 2018 · Bow and ArrowIn simplest terms, a bow is a long, flexible staff; a shorter string is attached to the staff's two ends, causing the staff to bend. An arrow is a shaft with feather-type vanes near one end, which is notched, and a pointed head on the other end.
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The use of science as evidence in policy making—irrespective of its disciplinary source—is a social phenomenon, and therefore a proper object of analysis for the social sciences. We present a research framework that can improve the scientific understanding of the use of science in public policy.
