Monthly Archives: January 2011
A word on Govdex
Email? So-last-year! Today’s world is dominated by social media, the facebooks and twitters of the world, and in the workplace we are constantly reminded to get with the times and make use of these growing networks. We have recently been asked about online tools to aid innovation. So we thought […]
Weekly bits of interest – 31 January 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the past couple of weeks: Dr John Steen from the University of Queensland writes of innovating in an emergency (within the context of the recent Brisbane flooding). “Sometimes when there is an urgency to come up with a solution there is a temptation to […]
Weekly bits of interest – 24 January 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the past couple of weeks: The Australian National Institute for Public Policy at the Australian National University is offering some Innovation and Strategy courses for Autumn 2011, including “Public Sector Innovation: what, why and how?”. The calendar of executive short courses can be found on their website. […]
Weekly bits of interest – 19 January 2011
Some posts and articles of interest for this week: In the midst of the Brisbane flood, here John Steen examines a few of the many clever ideas that can be drawn from nature. Here Christian Bason gives an optimistic overview of how some countries are tackling the pressures of tight […]
Innovation 101
On this site we talk about innovation all the time, but sometimes it’s important to remember that not everyone is familiar with what it is or what it really means. In response to my previous post on the Innovation Toolkit one of the commenters (Con) said that the Toolkit should […]
Weekly bits of interest – 10 January 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the past couple of weeks: Late last year the US Congress passed the America COMPETES Act to provide federal agencies with the authority to conduct prize competitions. ”By giving agencies a simple and clear legal path, the America COMPETES Act will make it dramatically easier for agencies […]