Category Archives: APS 200 Project
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 […]
End of year stock-take – public sector innovation in the APS in 2011
I recently read in an innovation newsletter that the most important motivator for innovation is progress, or being able to make and see progress in your work.1 This definitely resonates for me, and I find that the feeling of having achieved something is extremely important in sustaining my appetite for further […]
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 […]
Launch of the APS Innovation Action Plan – Agency Events?
As mentioned by Patricia Kelly in her last post on the outcomes of the APS 200 project on public sector innovation, one of the outcomes of the project is the APS Innovation Action Plan. The aim of the Innovation Action Plan is to capture some of the concrete initiatives being […]
APS200 Project on Public Sector Innovation – Final Post
I am delighted to advise that we have now achieved endorsement from the Secretaries Board to our final report on how to implement action to make our public service more innovative. It has been a truly collaborative journey working closely with 7 other agencies to highlight the actions the leadership, […]
APS 200 Project – April Update
My name is Tricia Berman and I’m the General Manager of the Innovation Policy Branch, which has been supporting the APS200 project on innovation in the public sector. The past few months since the Chair of the project committee, Patricia Kelly, last blogged have been busy, both for the project […]
Innovation Toolkit – What should it look like?
Innovation is not an easy process. By its very nature innovation it is about changing how things are done, and that means that there will be resistance of some form – otherwise the innovation would probably have already been introduced. There are a lot of tools available that can help us when we are […]
An Innovation Action Plan – putting innovation into action in the APS
If there was one thing that the public service could do to increase innovation in the APS, what do you think it should be? In her recent update on the APS 200 project on public sector innovation, Patricia Kelly noted that the project committee was looking at the development of […]
Designing Government Practice with Christian Bason
In October, I wrote about our investigations into the development of a MindLab-like space in the Australian Government. Well, week-before-last we were fortunate to spend some time with the head of the Danish MindLab, Christian Bason, who was in Australia as part of the Social Innovator Dialogues. This was our […]
Measuring Innovation – the Australian Public Sector Innovation Indicators Project
My name is Yanfei Shi and I work at the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research alongside the area that supports the public sector innovation work behind this blog. Our Department has launched a project to address the need for data and measurement on public sector innovation in Australia. […]