https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3euTVWLa4Y8
Development is a tricky business. Across the globe, weak implementation and poorly designed policy slows economic growth and hinders individual well-being. A

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2023/05/25/-successful-policy-design-can-be-messy-smart-policy-design-and-implementation-can-help
This refinement is at the center of Harvard's Kennedy School's Smart Policy Design and Implementation (SPDI). It involves six steps, the sixth being "refine.". In many ways, this novel approach to policy design brings together many elements of the Future of Government framework. Refining a policy's design feeds back into each of the

https://epod.cid.harvard.edu/our-approach-smart-policy-design-implementation-spdi
Many countries have introduced tough limits on air pollution to protect citizens' health - but creating the right incentives to achieve actual compliance is difficult. Addressing these finer policy challenges requires embedded and self-correcting processes that produce and integrate evidence as part of the policy implementation process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GCtwcyfbMM
Across the globe, weak implementation of poorly designed policy slows economic growth, hinders individual wellbeing, and harms the environment. This session

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/HKSEE/HKSEE%20PDFs/20-HKS-736_LSPD-Brochure_M%5B4%5D.pdf
Leading Smart Policy Design. will immerse you and your peers in a problem-driven, interactive learning environment that employs your collective expertise to design, test, and refine solutions. You will follow the six steps of the SPDI process, incorporating economic theory and rigorous evidence at every stage: » IDENTIFY. pressing policy

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/data-analysis-and-intelligent-policy-design-not-good-intentions-will
Public policy, values, and politics: Why so much depends on getting them right; The Ghost Budget: How U.S. war spending went rogue, wasted billions, and how to fix it; The Great Creep Backward: Policy responses to China's slowing economy; Two peoples. Two states. Why U.S. diplomacy in Israel and Palestine needs vision, partners, and a backbone

https://epod.cid.harvard.edu/article/executive-education-leading-smart-policy-design
Leading Smart Policy Design is an executive program for leaders and their teams charged with designing and delivering policies or programs that address social and economic problems around the world. It provides practical frameworks for analysis and hands-on experience using a smart, systematic, and collaborative approach to theory- and data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PwfMdDR71Q
Faculty from the Harvard Kennedy School Executive program Leading Smart Policy Design discuss how to use data to become a better leader.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2019.1607812
1. Goal ambiguity as an impediment to effective design. There is consensus among contemporary policy scholars that the main goal of policy design is effectiveness (Bali, Capano, and Ramesh Citation 2019; Peters et al. Citation 2018).All policymaking in theory is geared towards a single purpose - to achieve governmental objectives, whatever they may be.

https://epod.cid.harvard.edu/article/lspd-participants-tackle-social-and-economic-problems-smarts
One of Harvard Kennedy School's Executive Education programs, "Leading Smart Policy Design," provides practical frameworks for people grappling with tough social and economic policy problems around the world.The new, online executive education program was developed by experts at the School's Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) research program and uses their signature teaching and

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28180/chapter/213065118
The main topic of this article is 'smart policy'. This is a term used by reform entrepreneurs supporting the instrumental-technical perspective on New Public Management (NPM) to describe its supposed improvement of effectiveness and efficiency. This article discusses whether 'smart policy' is a defendable position or not, and addresses

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/understanding-and-analyzing-public-policy-design/541B4D8EC4491DB9B3CE21AAF4E24418
Summary. There has been a surge in scholarship on policy design over the last ten years, as scholars seek to understand and develop existing concepts, theories, and methods engaged in the study of policy design in the context of modern governance. This Element adds to the current discourse on the study of policy design by (i) presenting

https://jlzych.com/2018/06/27/notes-from-good-strategy-bad-strategy/
Design: Good strategy is design - fitting various pieces together so they work as a coherent whole. Creating a guiding policy and actions that are coherent is a source of power since so few companies do this well. As stated above, a lot of strategies aren't "designed" and instead are just a list of independent or conflicting objectives.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/HKSEE/HKSEE%20PDFs/LSPD-Brochure-2022.pdf
Leading Smart Policy Design is a groundbreaking executive program for leaders and their teams charged with designing and delivering policies or programs that address social and economic problems around the world. It provides practical framework for analysis and hands-on experience using this systematic and collaborative approach to theory- and

https://academic.oup.com/book/41537/chapter/352983476
Abstract. Policy design—finding the right policy instrument for a given problem—is at the core of policy-making. This chapter not only argues that policy design includes the assessment of costs, benefits, and potentially unintended side-effects of different policy options, but also the consideration of the fit of a new policy to the social, institutional, and policy context to which it

https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2021/11/why-policy-design-matters-a-tale-of-two-st-paul-controversies/
Policy design refers to how laws are made. It refers to the goals of laws, what one hopes to accomplish, and why. Implementation is the enforcement or administration of policies or putting them

https://medium.com/@pritamkumarsinha/design-thinking-a-novel-approach-to-shape-public-policy-and-smart-governance-6d11fd1131f1
Design thinking: turning policy-making into a canvas of human-centered possibilities. "Design thinking in public policy is not about providing solutions; it's about cultivating empathy

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-when-state-obvious-alexandre-oliveira-pmp-mba-itil
4. Foundation work, or what some people call "obvious statements", can create visibility to cover knowledge gaps. This is often seen in projects, mainly for people who have been working on

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/economic-development-using-analytical-frameworks-smart-policy-design
This course examines how economic theory and rigorous evidence can be harnessed to design development policies that respond to market and political failures in developing economies. The course builds on the analytical framework and evidence base provided in DEV-101 (which is a prerequisite). Topics covered include: Policy Design, Education, Health, Finance, Governance and Political Economy.

https://www.planetizen.com/node/84542/smart-design-smart-policy-not-so-fast
After a few decades watching—and sometimes helping—great ideas die of overexposure to reality, I'm convinced it's not enough to just listen to folks you're hoping to help. You have to make something happen. A well-conceived charrette helps.

https://www.mann.com/post/a-policy-is-a-design-failure
Parking lots try to get cars to slow down. The "policy" is that you should drive 5-10 miles per hour there, but some people race through it during tough commutes. That policy is usually written on a sign, with the expectation that people will read it, and naively hoping people will follow it. Good design is way better than any policy. Enter the designer: don't put a sign, just put speed

https://epod.cid.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/20180531%20SPDI%20Vocation%20skills%20flyer.pdf
lives by designing and enabling better policy. We practice—and work to promote—a problem-driven, collaborative approach, where policymakers and researchers come together, employing their collective expertise to design, test and refine solutions. In each of our policy-research engagements, we follow the six steps of Smart Policy Design

https://www.elgaronline.com/monochap/9781786431349/chapter01.xhtml
9. Forward mapping: forward mapping begins with goals and a policy design based on those goals and attempts to develop a mechanism for making that design function as planned. 10. Judgment: in the end policy design is about using good judgment, and no analytic schemes can be substitutions for judgment.