Monthly Archives: June 2011
Launch of the APS Innovation Action Plan
In my last post about the APS 200 project on public sector innovation, I mentioned some of the directions of the final project report. Today an important outcome of that project is being released – the Australian Public Service Innovation Action Plan. This document, signed by the members of the […]
Innovation Toolkit – Diagnostic Tool
My colleague Alex Roberts has written about the launch of the Public Sector Innovation Toolkit. In this post I want to take a closer look at one specific element of the Toolkit – the diagnostic tool. To assist practitioners with identifying strengths and weaknesses in the innovation process in their […]
Public Sector Innovation Toolkit
Today we announce the launch of the Public Sector Innovation Toolkit, a major new development in our ongoing work to support innovation in the public sector. Empowering Change: Fostering Innovation in the Australian Public Service identified that a priority area for action was the establishment and maintenance of an Innovation […]
Weekly bits of interest – 27 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Thomas McMahon provides his six tips for innovating in large (public sector) organisations including that you have to be passionate, it helps to have company, and it will take longer than you think. “Take the amount of time you think your change […]
Policy visualisation – what is it?
This post has been contributed by Paul Harris, Deputy Director, HC Coombs Policy Forum at the Australian National University. Here at the HC Coombs Policy Forum, we have commissioned a project in partnership with government on policy visualisation – or the potential of new visualisation techniques to assist government with […]
Weekly bits of interest – 20 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Tim Kastelle has revised his innovation matrix. The ‘reloaded’ matrix provides a description of the different stages of innovation competence and commitment for organisations, and may be a useful tool in helping to think about the innovation path that an agency may […]
Weekly bits of interest – 14 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has put together a publicly available Government 2.0 Register of initiatives. John Sheridan from AGIMO writes about the Register and how to contribute to it. Collaboration is a key contributor to effective innovation. Based on […]
International Conference on Best Practices and Innovations in Public Governance
On the blog we often focus on what is happening in Australia and touch upon some of the overseas developments in public sector innovation. Many of the relevant reports and case studies point to similarities in the issues being faced here and overseas in strengthening public sector innovation capability. But […]
Innovation and Evaluation: Are output-outcome financial frameworks stifling innovation in government?
The other day I was lucky enough to attend a talk at the Canberra Evaluation Forum given by Dr Mark Matthews, Executive Director of the HC Coombs Policy Forum based at ANU. His talk was titled ‘Evaluations and Innovation: Why improvements to dealing with uncertainty and risk in evaluation are […]
Innovation Toolkit – draft roles module
We have previously prepared and asked for comments on two draft Innovation Toolkit modules – ideas management systems, mechanisms of challenge and innovation values. Today we would like your thoughts on the draft module we have prepared on innovation roles. As mentioned, for each of the tools identified in Empowering […]