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Radical efficiency is about different, better and lower cost public services |
Radical Efficiency is about public service innovations that deliver  different, much better outcomes for users at significantly lower cost. Radical Efficiency is not about tweaking and improving existing services. It is about generating new perspectives on old problems to enable a genuine paradigm shift in the services on offer - and transform the user experience (read the report here).
We have uncovered more than 100 examples of radical efficiency across the globe in different services, contexts and on different scales. Our top ten case studies range from Mental Health First Aid in Australia to mobile banking in Kenya and from Chicago Police Department's virtual crime mapping tool to Solar Lamps in India. Radical efficiency has clear implications for the immediate funding crisis in public services - these innovations deliver 20-60% savings, whilst improving the quality of services. We believe it has even more important long term implications for creating sustainable public services for the future. The Innovation Unit has begun to develop the case for radical efficiency in practice. Working with colleagues in Croydon, Central Bedfordshire, the Eastern Region of the UK, the Royal College of General Practitioners professionals across the country has demonstrated the power of radical efficiency to inspire and structure a new kind of thinking about public service reform. You can read more about our work with Croydon Council in their Total Place report, Child: Family: Place: Radical efficiency to improve outcomes for young children. Our most ambitious work to date using Radical Efficiency methodology in practice has been the Transforming Early Years project. We are working with 6 localities across the UK, helping them to design, prototype and implement a radically efficient new model of support for families and young children. We are working with local providers of early years services, other local services - like health and police - and communities themselves to deliver radically better services at 30% lower cost. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with questions about the research or to discuss how we could help develop a radically efficient approach in your organisation. Click on the thumbnail below to download the full report.
These two reports both describe in more detail how Radical Efficiency has supported Total Place.
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