Civil Service Reform
People often ask for more information on the kind of work we do so we like to share a bit more detail here on the blog when we’re able to. One interesting set of projects we delivered recently looked at …
Christopher Webber
Chris runs the Open Innovation Team. He joined the Civil Service in 2012 and worked in a variety of Cabinet Office and HM Treasury roles before setting up the Open Innovation Team in 2016.
Five big challenges for government innovation
Chris Webber reflects on some key points from recent conferences in Birmingham and Seoul.
Thought Experiment: how we brought the world’s leading thinkers to Whitehall
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A look back at our Thought Experiment speaker series, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year.
Our top five priorities for the next three years
Our strategy has five main pillars: increase our policy impact, raise our profile, diversify our income, improve management and deliver benefits for our partners.
I'm a deviant. The positive kind.
I set-up the Open Innovation Team. I pitched the idea to Jeremy Heywood, refined it with colleagues, persuaded some top universities to fund us and quit my job at Treasury to run the pilot. I recently discovered that this kind …
Introducing the Open Innovation Team
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Learn about the Open Innovation Team's work to deepen collaboration between government officials and academics.