Monthly Archives: November 2011
Social Innovator Dialogue – Dan Hill, Helsinki Design Lab
On Tuesday 15 November 2011 I was lucky enough to attend the Social Innovator Dialogue discussion in Sydney with Dan Hill, Strategic Design Lead at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, in Helsinki. Dan spoke about strategic design where the public sector and civic life itself is the design challenge and where problems are […]
Weekly bits of interest – 21 November 2011
Recent developments and articles of interest: Scott Anthony provides some advice for beleaguered innovators. “You cannot find truth through analysis. You can only find truth through action. If you rest only on analysis to make decisions about innovation, you won’t do things that haven’t been done before. You will do incremental […]
Weekly bits of interest – 14 November 2011
Recent developments and articles of interest: The UK Government has established an Open Source Procurement Toolkit to assist those responsible for considering, evaluating or procuring open source solutions and to ensure a level playing field for open source and proprietary software in providing innovative ICT solutions to government. The Australian Centre […]
Manufacturing and Design
The value of design towards achieving innovation goals is becoming more and more appreciated in both the public and private sectors. An upcoming blog post will cover the application of design thinking to the public sector in more detail, but for now, I’ll take a look at the emerging presence […]
Weekly bits of interest – 7 November 2011
And we’re back with a bumper weekly bits of interest post. Recent developments and articles of interest: “Can you get things done without making people hate you?” is a post on some psychology research looking at the assertiveness “sweet spot”. “So the tacit belief that you get the best results in business […]