Tag Archives: collaboration
Improving Collaborations: Have your Say!
This post is from James Pitman, a member of a Graduate project team at the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. How do you, as an Australian Public Service (APS) member, engage with researchers? It’s a complicated question with no clearly defined answer. Approaches and guides to communicating with […]
Weekly bits of interest – 20 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Tim Kastelle has revised his innovation matrix. The ‘reloaded’ matrix provides a description of the different stages of innovation competence and commitment for organisations, and may be a useful tool in helping to think about the innovation path that an agency may […]
Weekly bits of interest – 14 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has put together a publicly available Government 2.0 Register of initiatives. John Sheridan from AGIMO writes about the Register and how to contribute to it. Collaboration is a key contributor to effective innovation. Based on […]
Weekly bits of interest – 23 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: University of Queensland academic Tim Kastelle compares the innovation process to the mining process. “You have to be able to generate great ideas, you have be able to select the best ones and then execute them, and you have to get […]
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, […]
The Public Sector Innovation Network
One of the things we do at the Government Innovation Policy team is host and support the Public Sector Innovation Network. This Network began as part of the Management Advisory Committee project on public sector innovation as a mechanism to involve and hear from public servants. The Network is open […]
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 […]
MindLab – A Danish public sector innovation lab and a stage for public sector collaboration
I recently visited the Danish MindLab in Copenhagen. A collaboration between the Danish Ministries of Economic and Business Affairs, Taxation and Employment, MindLab is a cross-Ministry innovation lab that facilitates the active involvement of citizens and businesses in developing new public sector solutions. MindLab specialises in facilitating discussions between public […]