Monthly Archives: March 2011
Weekly bits of interest – 28 March 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) recently released a paper ”The Future Course of Modern Government: An IPAA Policy Paper” that made some recommendations relating to innovation in government. One of these (in line with recommendation 8 of Empowering Change: Fostering Innovation in […]
Exposure to the new
If you are ever struggling to come up with ideas or need inspiration in tackling a difficult problem, I find one of the most useful things you can do is to do something different and hear some new perspectives and ideas from other people. On the weekend I attended BarCamp […]
Weekly bits of interest – 21 March 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: In this post Jeffrey Baumgartner provides some advice on establishing a recognition and reward scheme to complement ideas management systems in organisations. “The most important lesson here is to consider your rewards program carefully before you launch an ideas campaign or other innovation initiative. A […]
Weekly bits of interest – 15 March 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The Australian Government has released a revised data.gov.au site. You can use the site to suggest other datasets that could be included, commenting on the datasets up there, and provide feedback on the site. More information can be seen in the […]
Weekly bits of interest – 7 March 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: In this piece Christian Bason, Innovation Director at Denmark’s MindLab, gives some of his impressions of Australia’s public sector innovation efforts, including The Australian Centre for Social Innovation, the Victorian Public Service’s Innovation Action Plan, and strategic design. Of Australia he […]
Innovation Reading List – suggestions?
One of the things I have discovered over the past three years of working on innovation is that it involves a lot of reading. Yet as we all know, information overload is now a continual risk, and particularly for those trying to add innovation to an otherwise already full schedule and […]