Interesting read March 21 2010, By Chris

What’s not co-production?

Tagged with co-design | co-production

The co-design, co-production, co-creation, co-delivery space can be a little confusing. Many think that co’s are good things to have but use the terms as if interchangeable. In The Challenge of Co-production David Boyle and Michael Harris, (for Nesta’s Lab and The New Economics Foundation) provide us with this useful explanation in the form of a matrix adapted from earlier work by the Canrnegie Trust.

For Boyle and Harris full co-production happens only where user/communities & professionals are jointly responsible for designing and delivering services. Now all we need to do is find a process to make that happen.

The co-design, co-production, co-creation, co-delivery space can be a little confusing. Many think that the ‘Co’s’ are good things to have but use the terms as if interchangeable. In The Challenge of Co-production David Boyle and Michael Harris, (for Nesta’s Lab and The New Economics Foundation) provide us with an explanation of what co-production is and isn’t. The matrix below summaries their thinking.

For Boyle and Harris full co-production happens only where user/communities & professionals are jointly responsible for planning and delivering services. Now all we need is the approach to make that happen.

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