Comments on: Options Thinking and Innovation in the Public Sector http://innovation.govspace.gov.au/2010/07/01/options-thinking-and-innovation-in-the-public-sector/ Empowering change in the public sector Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: steve davies http://innovation.govspace.gov.au/2010/07/01/options-thinking-and-innovation-in-the-public-sector/comment-page-1/#comment-47 steve davies Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:09:17 +0000 http://innovation.govspace.gov.au/?p=488#comment-47 A staged approach - with decision making rules and styles - sounds like an approach that would suit a public sector that values red tape and is risk averse. The real challenge, I suspect, is to set rules and styles that are 'ahead of the game'with the aim of empowering APS employees to innovate and managing the risks posed by risk averse management sub-cultures and business processes. Now wouldn't it be nice to have rules and styles and liberated and enabled our people? And what would those rules and styles look like? A staged approach – with decision making rules and styles – sounds like an approach that would suit a public sector that values red tape and is risk averse.

The real challenge, I suspect, is to set rules and styles that are ‘ahead of the game’with the aim of empowering APS employees to innovate and managing the risks posed by risk averse management sub-cultures and business processes.

Now wouldn’t it be nice to have rules and styles and liberated and enabled our people? And what would those rules and styles look like?

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