Tag Archives: ideas management system
Weekly bits of interest – 18 July 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the last two weeks: The US Government has announced their third annual SAVE (Securing Americans Value and Efficiency) Award, which is a contest for federal employees to submit ideas about how to cut waste, save taxpayer dollars, and make government more effective and efficient. Prompted by […]
Landgate and Innovation
Hi, my name is Paul Duncan, and I look after Innovation and Research at Landgate—the Western Australian Land and Information Authority. Some of you may have caught my talk at the Innovation Week at DAFF at the start of May but for those who didn’t, this is a little bit […]
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 […]
Innovation Toolkit – Draft ideas management systems ‘module’
We’ve previously asked you about what the innovation toolkit should look like. Now we’d like some help with another toolkit question. For each of the tools identified in Empowering Change: Fostering Innovation in the Australian Public Service we are developing a ‘module’ to try and provide you with information about […]
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 […]
Ideas Central – Ideas management at the Department of Innovation
One of the things I have found in my two years researching and investigating public sector innovation is that a great deal of attention is paid to the beginning stage of the innovation process – the generation of ideas. But in some ways that is the least important phase as organisations rarely […]
Weekly bits of interest – 18 October 2010
Developments and articles of interest from the past week: John Kotter writes about what to do when your innovative idea is responded to with “we already tried that”. In this post H. James Wilson and Kevin Desouza write about the zombie workplace (where creative people and good ideas disturbingly molder). […]
Sharing Innovation Problems
Have you got an innovation problem that you’d like help on? As an experiment, and in our role supporting the Public Sector Innovation Network, we are sharing questions from members of the Network about issues or problems they are facing in their innovation efforts or regarding specific innovation problems. We start […]
Ideas to actions: DAFF’s innovation experience
Hi everyone We’re the I-Gen team from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I-Gen stands for ‘innovation generation’ and is our department’s innovation initiative that was launched on 7 May 2010, after extensive trials. I-Gen encourages staff to come up with ideas that improve the way the department works […]