Category Archives: Innovation in Practice
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 […]
Landgate and Innovation
Hi, my name is Paul Duncan, and I look after Innovation and Research at Landgate—the Western Australian Land and Information Authority. Some of you may have caught my talk at the Innovation Week at DAFF at the start of May but for those who didn’t, this is a little bit […]
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 […]
Innovation Showcase – Sharing examples of public sector innovation
Previously on the blog we have mentioned the development of a platform for sharing examples of innovation in the public sector. Today I’d like to draw your attention to the public sector Innovation Showcase. The Showcase is live and provides examples of public sector innovation in action. It also includes […]
Building a business case – how will you know the idea has worked?
In this post, we take a look at another difficult aspect of developing a business case1 - identifying the outcomes and being able to say what success (or failure) will look like in implementing the idea. You should know what you hope will happen, but how will you assess whether it has worked, and whether its […]
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) […]