Comment & Opinion
2nd May 2024
Why good decision-making is like painting a picture
Four artistic techniques that can help us overcome flaws in our perspective and make better decisions.
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Comment & Opinion
3rd Jul 2024
No money doesn’t mean no ideas: three cost-free ways to improve government delivery and get results
What cash-strapped governments can learn from behavioural science’s big successes.
Comment & Opinion
15th Jul 2024
Using behavioural science to drive mission-driven government
Drawing on over a decade of experience we’re helping the public and private sector understand the human behaviours that can make a mission successful.
Comment & Opinion
4th Sep 2024
How to avoid creating red tape: a guide to cutting out pointless paperwork
Working with the U.S. Veteran Health Administration to understand, identify and eliminate unnecessary government bureaucracy.
Comment & Opinion
10th Sep 2024
Can behavioural science stop the bomb?
We worked with Chatham House to uncover the risky behaviours built into nuclear weapons programmes and understand how we could cut the chances of the worst consequences.
Comment & Opinion
23rd Oct 2024
Four Big Shifts: moving BIT into a new era
The reality is that BIT has always ranged wider than behavioural science, whether in terms of promoting deliberative democracy, the use of reliable evidence, or rapid and low-cost evaluations. Our goal is to improve outcomes in society, using rigour, pragmatism, and the best approaches available. We’re remaining true to that…
Comment & Opinion
2nd Dec 2024
Improving NHS productivity: the overlooked role of workforce management
The NHS made historic productivity gains of 15% between 2010 and 2018. Policymakers shouldn’t forget that these were fuelled in part by discretionary effort and that basic improvements in workforce management could help it rise again. NHS productivity finally looks to be recovering, but hospital productivity remains substantially lower than…
Comment & Opinion
10th Dec 2024
Big shifts for behavioural science: working with complexity and systems
This is the first piece in our series explaining the four big shifts in behavioural science that BIT is aiming to achieve. In 2023, we published our manifesto, which set out ten proposals for where the field of behavioural science should go next. Now, BIT and Nesta have taken things…
Comment & Opinion
17th Dec 2024
Breaking down behavioral barriers to affordable housing in the US
The US is experiencing an affordable housing crisis, and renters are bearing the brunt of it. For nearly half of renters - over 21 million households - more than 30% of their income goes toward rent. This leaves little room to make ends meet, let alone to save for emergencies…
Comment & Opinion
16th Jan 2025
Big shifts for behavioural science: focusing on the social drivers of behaviour
This is the second piece in our series explaining the four big shifts in behavioural science that BIT is aiming to achieve. In 2023, BIT published a manifesto setting out ten proposals for the future of behavioural science. Now, BIT and Nesta are setting out how we can advance these…