Category Archives: Innovation Toolkit
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 […]
Ideas Central – Ideas management at the Department of Innovation
One of the things I have found in my two years researching and investigating public sector innovation is that a great deal of attention is paid to the beginning stage of the innovation process – the generation of ideas. But in some ways that is the least important phase as organisations rarely […]
Ideas to actions: DAFF’s innovation experience
Hi everyone We’re the I-Gen team from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I-Gen stands for ‘innovation generation’ and is our department’s innovation initiative that was launched on 7 May 2010, after extensive trials. I-Gen encourages staff to come up with ideas that improve the way the department works […]
Horizon Scanning and the AJASN
One of the things we aim to do with the Innovation Blog is to discuss tools, strategies and approaches that can assist or supplement the innovation process in public sector organisations. In this post we give a brief look at horizon or environmental scanning. Recently a colleague and I had […]