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Weekly bits of interest – 20 June 2011

Developments and articles of interest from the last week: Tim Kastelle has revised his innovation matrix. The ‘reloaded’ matrix provides a description of the different stages of innovation competence and commitment for organisations, and may be a useful tool in helping to think about the innovation path that an agency may […]

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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 […]

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Weekly bits of interest – 9 May 2011

Developments and articles of interest from the last two weeks: The Finalists of the 2011 Australian Excellence in eGovernment Awards have been announced. Jorge Barba looks at whether you can innovate if you do not love what you do. “What I will argue is that you can become passionate about just […]

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Weekly bits of interest – 2 May 2011

Developments and articles of interest from the last two weeks: In this piece Klaus-Peter Speidel gives some tips on how to do intelligent crowd-sourcing of ideas. “There is no intelligent crowd per se. Different problems and needs call for different crowds. Rather than trying to engage as many people as possible, […]

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Different Types of Innovation in the Public Sector

A question that public servants often face is ‘What is the right response to this problem?’ In the public service there are frameworks, guides, tools, policies and previous experiences to help public servants answer that question. Sometimes the answer will be ‘an innovative response’ – possibly a significant, ongoing shift […]

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