Monthly Archives: December 2010
Weekly bits of interest – 20 December 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: In this post John Kotter talks about how conflict can actually assist in getting buy-in for an idea, and that avoiding conflict can result in endorsement but not engagement which will likely lead to a slow and painful death for an idea. The […]
Weekly bits of interest – 13 December 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: Craig Thomler is compiling some data on which Commonwealth agencies use which forms of social media and has asked for help in completing the spreadsheet. “When you’re defending an idea, my research of what works in the real world suggests that […]
Weekly bits of interest – 6 December 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) have released a Gov 2.0 Primer. The Primer describes common scenarios when agencies can use Government 2.0 approaches and an overview of common interactive online tools such as blogs and wikis. The innovation expert […]
Innovation Toolkit – What should it look like?
Innovation is not an easy process. By its very nature innovation it is about changing how things are done, and that means that there will be resistance of some form – otherwise the innovation would probably have already been introduced. There are a lot of tools available that can help us when we are […]
An Innovation Action Plan – putting innovation into action in the APS
If there was one thing that the public service could do to increase innovation in the APS, what do you think it should be? In her recent update on the APS 200 project on public sector innovation, Patricia Kelly noted that the project committee was looking at the development of […]
Google under the hood
Last week I, along with some other members of the public sector innovation network, got to hear from Alan Noble (Engineering Director, Google Australia) and a number of Google engineers talking about their approach to innovation. Google is well known for its ability to innovate (for instance, see Dr Kastelle’s […]