Category Archives: Events
DeepDive Workshop – 11 July 2011 Canberra
Last week we hosted a DeepDive workshop with Bill Eggers, in conjunction with the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet and the HC Coombs Policy Forum. Bill Eggers is Global Director for Deloitte Research and Executive Director of Deloitte’s Public Leadership Institute and his recent books on innovation include The […]
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 […]
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 […]
Practical tools to drive innovation
Creativity; its all around us, but what does creativity mean for the public sector? When we look for creative outcomes, what are we actually looking for? We know that two key aspects of creativity are novelty and usefulness, and that understanding these components can help us apply creative thinking to […]
An event to remember
Helen Bailey is a member of the iGen team at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). If you haven’t heard, we held our inaugural Innovation Week at DAFF from 2-5 May. We think the best words to describe our event are ‘exciting, inspiring, successful and motivating’. Exciting…because, as […]
Weekly bits of interest – 2 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last two weeks: In this piece Klaus-Peter Speidel gives some tips on how to do intelligent crowd-sourcing of ideas. “There is no intelligent crowd per se. Different problems and needs call for different crowds. Rather than trying to engage as many people as possible, […]
IDEAS – Presentation by Professor English
Have you ever had the problem of having lots of ideas, but not being sure which ones to concentrate your efforts on? Associate Professor Jack English from the Australian Innovation Research Centre (based in Hobart) recently presented to some members of the Public Sector Innovation Network about his Innovation Development Early Assessment System (IDEAS) […]
Exposure to the new
If you are ever struggling to come up with ideas or need inspiration in tackling a difficult problem, I find one of the most useful things you can do is to do something different and hear some new perspectives and ideas from other people. On the weekend I attended BarCamp […]
Design in the public service
Design can mean a range of things and might be broader than you expect – it means well designed products and services. Good design means: functionality and safety, value for money, quality end products, fewer resources used in manufacture, brand loyalty and greater financial return. These qualities should be just […]