Category Archives: Innovation Theory
Service design…..who are we designing for?
What do Sticky notes and a rubber chicken have in common? The possibility to change the world of course! Service Design thinking, for those who haven’t heard of it, is an interdisciplinary approach that offers great value for entrepreneurs and innovators in the field of services. Design thinking can help […]
Innovation Toolkit – Draft ideas management systems ‘module’
We’ve previously asked you about what the innovation toolkit should look like. Now we’d like some help with another toolkit question. For each of the tools identified in Empowering Change: Fostering Innovation in the Australian Public Service we are developing a ‘module’ to try and provide you with information about […]
Innovation 101
On this site we talk about innovation all the time, but sometimes it’s important to remember that not everyone is familiar with what it is or what it really means. In response to my previous post on the Innovation Toolkit one of the commenters (Con) said that the Toolkit should […]
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 […]
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. […]
Open wide, come inside, it’s innovation
This is a post from our colleagues Brant Smith and Helen Bailey at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Imagine if you could solve your problem by simply asking a question? Chances are that one of your colleagues or someone outside your department already has the solution to your […]
Different Types of Innovation in the Public Sector
A question that public servants often face is ‘What is the right response to this problem?’ In the public service there are frameworks, guides, tools, policies and previous experiences to help public servants answer that question. Sometimes the answer will be ‘an innovative response’ – possibly a significant, ongoing shift […]