Tag Archives: competitions
Weekly bits of interest – 30 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Deloitte Canada recently released Innovation in government: Conversations with Canada’s public service leaders. The report is based on conversations with nearly 100 public sector leaders in Canada about the challenges facing Canada’s public service, measures being taken to innovate, and obstacles […]
Weekly bits of interest – 14 February 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: In this post, Tim Kastelle from University of Queensland argues that experimentation rather than benchmarking is the key to introducing innovation. ”The problem with benchmarking is the basic assumption that a particular tool or process will function in the same way in your firm as […]
Weekly bits of interest – 24 January 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the past couple of weeks: The Australian National Institute for Public Policy at the Australian National University is offering some Innovation and Strategy courses for Autumn 2011, including “Public Sector Innovation: what, why and how?”. The calendar of executive short courses can be found on their website. […]
Weekly bits of interest – 10 January 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the past couple of weeks: Late last year the US Congress passed the America COMPETES Act to provide federal agencies with the authority to conduct prize competitions. ”By giving agencies a simple and clear legal path, the America COMPETES Act will make it dramatically easier for agencies […]
Weekly bits of interest – 20 December 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: In this post John Kotter talks about how conflict can actually assist in getting buy-in for an idea, and that avoiding conflict can result in endorsement but not engagement which will likely lead to a slow and painful death for an idea. The […]
Weekly bits of interest – 13 December 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: Craig Thomler is compiling some data on which Commonwealth agencies use which forms of social media and has asked for help in completing the spreadsheet. “When you’re defending an idea, my research of what works in the real world suggests that […]
Weekly bits of interest – 2 August 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: This piece from John Steen at the University of Queensland looks at the recent mega-trends work of the CSIRO and the value of scenario thinking for innovation. In this post, Dr Nicholas Gruen (who was Chair of last year’s Gov 2.0 Taskforce) urges […]
Weekly bits of interest – 19 July 2010
Last week’s picks of interesting articles: In this post, MindLab’s Innovation Director Christian Bason looks at the word innovation, what it really means and why it is both needed and overused. “But to place the practice of innovation more squarely at the heart of government, we need to continue to […]
Weekly bits of interest – 28 June 2010
Each week we’ll provide a post providing links to current developments or articles that relate to public sector innovation and that we think may be of interest. If you have seen any other articles or developments of interest in the past week that you think relate to public sector innovation, feel […]