Monthly Archives: May 2011
Practical tools to drive innovation
Creativity; its all around us, but what does creativity mean for the public sector? When we look for creative outcomes, what are we actually looking for? We know that two key aspects of creativity are novelty and usefulness, and that understanding these components can help us apply creative thinking to […]
Weekly bits of interest – 30 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Deloitte Canada recently released Innovation in government: Conversations with Canada’s public service leaders. The report is based on conversations with nearly 100 public sector leaders in Canada about the challenges facing Canada’s public service, measures being taken to innovate, and obstacles […]
Weekly bits of interest – 23 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: University of Queensland academic Tim Kastelle compares the innovation process to the mining process. “You have to be able to generate great ideas, you have be able to select the best ones and then execute them, and you have to get […]
An event to remember
Helen Bailey is a member of the iGen team at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). If you haven’t heard, we held our inaugural Innovation Week at DAFF from 2-5 May. We think the best words to describe our event are ‘exciting, inspiring, successful and motivating’. Exciting…because, as […]
Innovation Showcase – Sharing examples of public sector innovation
Previously on the blog we have mentioned the development of a platform for sharing examples of innovation in the public sector. Today I’d like to draw your attention to the public sector Innovation Showcase. The Showcase is live and provides examples of public sector innovation in action. It also includes […]
Weekly bits of interest – 16 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The UK Government launched a prototype site last week called Alpha.gov.uk, testing a new approach to a new single website for central government (H/t to Craig Thomler). The site has two overarching objectives: “To test, in public, a prototype of a new, single UK Government […]
Building a business case – how will you know the idea has worked?
In this post, we take a look at another difficult aspect of developing a business case1 - identifying the outcomes and being able to say what success (or failure) will look like in implementing the idea. You should know what you hope will happen, but how will you assess whether it has worked, and whether its […]
Weekly bits of interest – 9 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last two weeks: The Finalists of the 2011 Australian Excellence in eGovernment Awards have been announced. Jorge Barba looks at whether you can innovate if you do not love what you do. “What I will argue is that you can become passionate about just […]
Weekly bits of interest – 2 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last two weeks: In this piece Klaus-Peter Speidel gives some tips on how to do intelligent crowd-sourcing of ideas. “There is no intelligent crowd per se. Different problems and needs call for different crowds. Rather than trying to engage as many people as possible, […]