Behavioural Insights

Using the Force of Behavioural Systems Mapping – How BSM Can Help Take Down the Empire (and Tackle Policy Challenges)

At BC Behavioural Insights Group (BC BIG), the challenges we face are evolving and so are our approaches. Today’s complex, interconnected challenges require adaptive, holistic and collaborative approaches. That’s where behavioural systems mapping (BSM) comes in. It’s a method that blends behavioural science with systems thinking to help us map out the relevant actors, their behaviours and how these influence and interact with one another to impact the desired outcome.

My Road to BC BIG: Using BI to Meet the Challenges of Diverse Societies

As a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of British Columbia, Isabel Chew wanted to know: How does ethnic identity shape political attitudes and behaviour in Southeast Asia? The search for answers to questions like this as well as a belief behavioural insights could play a part led her to take on her new role at the BC Behavioural Insights Group.

Using Behavioural Insights to Improve How We Work: A BIG Difference BC 2023 Retrospective

Members of the BIG Difference BC Planning Committee and attendees reflect on BIG Difference BC 2023 and share their key takeaways in this retrospective blog.

Making It Easy: Choice Reads for Communicating Better

Make it easy, make it easy, don’t let the sound of your own writing drive your readers crazy…(to the tune of The Eagle’s “Take It Easy”). Okay, enough cheese. Read my (a comms person) selections for writing effective communications using insights from behavioural science.