Weekly bits of interest – 7 November 2011
And we’re back with a bumper weekly bits of interest post. Recent developments and articles of interest: “Can you get things done without making people hate you?” is a post on some psychology research...
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Be inspired! Or help others be inspired!
While putting together the Public Sector Innovation Annual Report 2011-2012 I have been following up a few leads recommended by people in our network. Every piece has provoked thought, provided...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 25 March 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Development Post has an interview with Christian Bason, Director of Mindlab, including discussion of design thinking and how it differs from the...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 26 August 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Is ’20% time’ the best way to spur innovation? Michael Schrage examines the changing face of Google’s innovation culture. “In other words, tomorrow’s...
View ArticleCitizen Co-Design Survey
Students from the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) are undertaking a survey on agency activity in citizen co-design on policy development. This project is being undertaken with a...
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‘Building the Solution Economy’ – A perspective from Bill Eggers
In an era of exponential technological change, and in a world where governments are seeking to reduce costs but citizen demands are changing and growing, how are we to solve entrenched problems? At a...
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Some recent developments and articles of interest: A lot of initiatives to increase innovation within organisations fail. Why is that the case? Tim Kastelle advises focussing on the six steps of the...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 31 March 2014
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Tim Kastelle looks at how organisations with ‘flat’ structures innovate more. “When we talk about flat firms, the first response is ‘no, that’s...
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Some recent developments and articles of interest: The UK Government has opened its ‘Policy Lab UK’ which aims to bring “new techniques to the UK Government, helping design services around people’s...
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When you’re innovative outside the office; an update on the PSIN Chapters
We’ve noticed an emerging trend with the roll out of the PSIN Chapters. There are registrants who can attend meetings in work time and there are those who can’t. This of course is expected; the public...
View ArticleInnovation Month 2015 – we need a theme!
It seems we’ve only just put our feet under our standing desks and already it’s time to start thinking about what the future holds for public sector innovation. We’re talking to lots of stakeholders...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 22 June 2015
Some recent developments and articles of interest: This week is Public Sector Week in Victoria. “Public Sector Week provides thought challenging professional development and promotes the role and...
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Some recent developments and articles of interest: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released the Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Toolkit. “The toolkit contains information,...
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Some recent developments and articles of interest: MindLab provides a design guide for prototyping. “A prototype is an efficient tool if you want to explore your design challenge or learn more about...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 14 December 2015
Some recent developments and articles of interest: The Mandarin provides an update on the work programme for the new Behavioural Economics Team for the Australian Government (BETA). “BETA … is already...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 11 April 2016
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Alan Ryan shares the Alberta CoLab story. “As lab practitioners, we tend to be process geeks with a strong belief in the superiority of our own...
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