The IDHUS Institute

An institution can learn from a crisis, correct a serious mistake or improve after an unsuccessful programme without necessarily becoming good at learning. This distinction is easy to overlook because…

When an institution says that it has learned from experience, one of the simplest ways to test the claim is to imagine replacing the people who experienced the event. The…

When we say that an institution has learned, we often imagine learning as though it were a single kind of change: something happens, the organisation absorbs the lesson and its…

Institutional reform is often judged by its visible scale. Large restructurings, major legislative packages, new digital platforms, extensive procedural redesigns and sweeping changes in authority are naturally interpreted as signs…