Monthly Archives: January 2012
Weekly bits of interest – 30 January 2012
Some developments and articles of interest: How many times have you been warned about reinventing the wheel? Tim Kastelle identifies some circumstances where innovation is aided by doing so. In another post Tim Kastelle discusses some opportunities for business model innovation within the higher education sector. “There are a few issues in […]
A Pilot Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design
[Ken Pettifer is acting Deputy Secretary at the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education] One of the ideas included in the Australian Public Service (APS) Innovation Action Plan released in 2011 was the establishment of an APS Design Centre that could assist in developing and testing new […]
Weekly bits of interest – 23 January 2012
Some developments and articles of interest from over the holiday break: Bill Eggers and Ruben Gonzalez from Deloitte write about the need for disruptive innovation in the public sector. “Budget cutting in government is typically an exercise in using the blunt instrument of across-the-board cuts—in other words, doing more of the same with […]