Monthly Archives: June 2012
Can innovation be routine?
The recent Innovation Week events gave me a chance to meet a lot of people and hear almost as many view points about innovation. Some of the conversations made me wonder, do we sometimes put innovation in a special box? For instance, what do the following statements relate to? ‘It’s […]
Centre for Excellence – CEO
I am delighted to share with you today that the role of CEO for the Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design will be undertaken by Ms Jane Treadwell. Jane has significant experience in government and change management, including through her previous roles as Government Chief Information Officer for the […]
Weekly bits of interest – 25 June 2012
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Christian Bason of Denmark’s MindLab advocates that policy makers adopt a different approach for complex policy issues. ”Note the reverse sequence of the development process: because we don’t already understand the connection between the causes (solutions) and the consequences (effects), we need to feel […]
Creating Shared Value with Business – Innovation Week 2012
The Scenario: You are a regional natural resource management (NRM) organisation looking to partner with other stakeholders including different levels of government, community and Indigenous groups, research bodies, NGOs and corporations. Your objective is to develop compelling value propositions that result in partnerships for your organisation with companies and other […]
Innovation Week 2012 – theatrical tools and service design
What has the theatre got to do with designing better services? On Friday 8 June our team participated in a workshop that made the connection. As part of GovJam for Innovation Week, we brought to Canberra Adam StJohn Lawrence and Markus Edgar Hormeß from Work Play Experience, a European service design and customer experience consultancy. Adam […]
Innovation Week 2012 – Lecture by Professor Sandford Borins
Is the ability to tell stories, to use narrative to communicate rather than just evidence, given enough attention in the public service? Do we rely too much on dry data to make the case for change? On Wednesday 6 June Professor Sandford Borins from the University of Toronto tackled these questions when […]
Weekly bits of interest – 18 June 2012
Some recent developments and articles of interest: We all know now that hand washing in hospitals reduces infections, but it too was an innovation one time. Tim Kastelle looks at some of the lessons from the introduction of a seemingly simple innovation. ”Innovators tend to be pretty smart, and one of the most common mistakes that […]
Innovation Week 2012 – GovCamp – Leadership Panel
We have lots of discussion about innovation in the public sector, but at GovCamp we had the opportunity to hear from a number of senior public servants about their thoughts on what innovation means and what to do about it. Leadership Panel I won’t recount the entire discussion, as you can watch […]
Innovation Week 2012 – GovCamp – Academics Panel
What does it look like when you mix innovation and Gov 2.0 practitioners, academics, senior leaders of the Australian Public service and interested stakeholders together? The answer is GovCamp, a one day event held at the University of Canberra’s INSPIRE Centre on 5 June. The day saw presentations from the Australian Information […]
Innovation Week 2012 – Huge effort pays off
Helen Bailey is a member of the I-Gen team at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). Innovation Week…a great success, yet again! We—the I-Gen team at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry—have emerged from sleep deprivation, caffeine poisoning and a sugar overdose to a state of post-event euphoria. […]