Monthly Archives: October 2010

Weekly bits of interest – 25 October 2010

Developments and articles of interest from the past week: Tim Kastelle, of University of Queensland, writes about two different methods for choosing between ideas. As Tim notes most organisations have plenty of ideas – the harder parts of the process can be choosing which ideas to implement, embed and diffuse. […]

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Weekly bits of interest – 18 October 2010

Developments and articles of interest from the past week: John Kotter writes about what to do when your innovative idea is responded to with “we already tried that”. In this post H. James Wilson and Kevin Desouza write about the zombie workplace (where creative people and good ideas disturbingly molder). […]

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Sharing Innovation Problems

Have you got an innovation problem that you’d like help on? As an experiment, and in our role supporting the Public Sector Innovation Network, we are sharing questions from members of the Network about issues or problems they are facing in their innovation efforts or regarding specific innovation problems. We start […]

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Weekly bits of interest – 11 October 2010

Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The Attorney-General’s Department has amended released an amended Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies, including that agencies should license their public sector information under Creative Commons BY license (the same license that this blog site uses). In its post about this, […]

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Weekly bits of interest – 5 October 2010

Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Here Tim Kastelle writes about the problem with metrics and how they might distract from the actual goal. This article investigates whether or not innovation should be a core component of every businesses strategy

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MindLab concept workshop

Does your agency have a designated space or group to facilitate problem-solving and the design of policy or services? You may be surprised to know that there are a number of examples of this in the Australian Public Service ranging from Betaworks in the ABS to the Concept Lab (Centrelink) […]

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