Tag Archives: failure
Weekly bits of interest – 12 December 2011
Recent developments and articles of interest: Have you been involved in an outstanding innovation? You might want to consider nominating them for the 2011-12 Commonwealth Association for Public Administration & Management (CAPAM) international innovations awards. Nominations are due by 31 March 2012. Tim Kastelle asks “When was the last time you […]
Weekly bits of interest – 27 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Thomas McMahon provides his six tips for innovating in large (public sector) organisations including that you have to be passionate, it helps to have company, and it will take longer than you think. “Take the amount of time you think your change […]
Weekly bits of interest – 6 June 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Craig Thomler looks at the question of how agencies can manage the competing tensions and time-frames for responses in a social media world - the public sector responsibilities of deliberative, considered and comprehensive vs the need to be quick and responsive in social media channels. Innovation is helped by diverse […]
Weekly bits of interest – 16 May 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: The UK Government launched a prototype site last week called Alpha.gov.uk, testing a new approach to a new single website for central government (H/t to Craig Thomler). The site has two overarching objectives: “To test, in public, a prototype of a new, single UK Government […]
Weekly bits of interest – 18 April 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Last week I posted about how the public service can learn from its innovation ‘failures’ – Joshua Gans writes that a focus on failure is not enough, and that there are other considerations in innovation. “But it’s really very hard to learn […]
Weekly bits of interest – 4 April 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last week: At the last meeting of the Public Sector Innovation Network Agency Facilitators Meeting, hosted by the Australian Taxation Office, the Tax Commissioner Michael D’Ascenzo opened the meeting. His opening address has been now been put online by the ATO. NESTA (the […]
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 […]