Public Value

Here are some questions to ask when a company says it plans to get to zero emissions.

To address more complex social challenges, design thinking must become radically more collaborative and oriented toward systems change.

Enthusiasm for systems change is not new, and a broader historical perspective will help systems change enthusiasts learn from the past what NOT to do: replicate the ineffective mindsets and engineering approaches that have defined so much of the systems change work in our sectors.

One model that holds great promise for sustainability is the circular economy (CE) — instead of digging up materials, using them once, and then throwing them away, companies in a CE recapture the enormous volume of resources in their value chain in order to use them again and again.

The Public Value Tool Kit is a set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

This essay reviews the development of public value management, tracing its rise from relative obscurity in the 1990s to the global attention it receives today.