Are you tired of piecemeal projects that lack a cohesive vision, on the one hand, and overly idealistic strategies and reforms that are difficult to implement in practice, on the other?

Mission-based governance is a third way. You set an ambitious vision and assemble a portfolio of pilot initiatives—both large and small—under that vision, through which different approaches to achieving the goal are tested. What matters is not that each individual initiative succeeds, but that the portfolio as a whole does.

This is the approach that the EU, DGI, the Innovation Fund, the British government, and several municipalities, among others, have adopted when it comes to problems that require a cross-sectoral effort and where solutions cannot be devised from behind a desk. It may sound appealing. But how does it actually work in practice?

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