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Designing Government Practice with Christian Bason

In October, I wrote about our investigations into the development of a MindLab-like space in the Australian Government. Well, week-before-last we were fortunate to spend some time with the head of the Danish MindLab, Christian Bason, who was in Australia as part of the Social Innovator Dialogues. This was our […]

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Weekly bits of interest – 15 November 2010

Developments and articles of interest from the past week: The US Government has announced the finalists for the 2010 SAVE Award. More than 18,000 ideas were put forward by employees of the US Government on how to cut waste, save money, and boost performance. Ellie Runcie from the UK Design Council writes […]

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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 […]

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