Tag Archives: Empowering Change

MindLab concept workshop

Does your agency have a designated space or group to facilitate problem-solving and the design of policy or services? You may be surprised to know that there are a number of examples of this in the Australian Public Service ranging from Betaworks in the ABS to the Concept Lab (Centrelink) […]

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Weekly bits of interest – 5 July 2010

Some interesting articles from the past week. Dr John Steen wrote a piece about the challenge of idea selection being a universal problem for the public sector. John also discusses the report Empowering Change: Fostering Innovation in the Australian Public Service. In this article, John D. Donahue argues that in the […]

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Welcome to the Public Sector Innovation Blog

Welcome to the Public Sector Innovation blog or ‘Innovation Blog’ for short. I am Patricia Kelly, Deputy Secretary at the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, and Chair of the Steering Committee that oversaw the development of the Management Advisory Committee project on public sector innovation. That project resulted in a report, Empowering […]

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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 […]

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