Month: June 2012

The recent Innovation Week events gave me a chance to meet a lot of people and hear almost as many view points about innovation. Some of the conversations made me wonder, do we sometimes put innovation in a special box? For instance, what do the following statements relate to? ‘It’s about the culture of an organisation’ ‘It’s… Continue reading Can innovation be routine?

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] What has the theatre got to do with designing better services? On Friday 8 June our team participated in a workshop that made the connection. As part of GovJam for Innovation Week, we brought to Canberra Adam StJohn Lawrence and Markus Edgar Hormeß from Work Play… Continue reading Innovation Week 2012 – theatrical tools and service design

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] Is the ability to tell stories, to use narrative to communicate rather than just evidence, given enough attention in the public service? Do we rely too much on dry data to make the case for change? On Wednesday 6… Continue reading Innovation Week 2012 – Lecture by Professor Sandford Borins

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] What does it look like when you mix innovation and Gov 2.0 practitioners, academics, senior leaders of the Australian Public service and interested stakeholders together? The answer is GovCamp, a one day event held at the University of Canberra’s INSPIRE Centre on… Continue reading Innovation Week 2012 – GovCamp – Academics Panel