Monthly Archives: June 2010
Welcome to the Public Sector Innovation Blog
Welcome to the Public Sector Innovation blog or ‘Innovation Blog’ for short. I am Patricia Kelly, Deputy Secretary at the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, and Chair of the Steering Committee that oversaw the development of the Management Advisory Committee project on public sector innovation. That project resulted in a report, Empowering […]
MindLab – A Danish public sector innovation lab and a stage for public sector collaboration
I recently visited the Danish MindLab in Copenhagen. A collaboration between the Danish Ministries of Economic and Business Affairs, Taxation and Employment, MindLab is a cross-Ministry innovation lab that facilitates the active involvement of citizens and businesses in developing new public sector solutions. MindLab specialises in facilitating discussions between public […]
Weekly bits of interest – 28 June 2010
Each week we’ll provide a post providing links to current developments or articles that relate to public sector innovation and that we think may be of interest. If you have seen any other articles or developments of interest in the past week that you think relate to public sector innovation, feel […]
Weekly bits of interest – 21 June 2010
Some interesting articles from the past week: In this post Dr Tim Kastelle looks at why it is usually better to test ideas at an earlier stage rather than perfecting them. Dr Kastelle notes that “Version 2.0 will nearly always be better than the original. The lesson is this – don’t search […]
Weekly bits of interest – 15 June 2010
Some interesting articles from the past week: This piece looks at some of the reasons that innovation efforts can fail in organisations. Just as with any individual innovation, attention needs to be paid to sustaining an innovation drive and ensuring it ‘sticks’. This piece provides some tips for change agents. […]