Month: July 2014

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] What sort of leadership is required to help encourage innovation in the Australian Public Service? At the second of the ‘Uncomfortable Ideas’ lunchtime speaker series for Innovation Month 2014, the discussion topic was ‘Leadership or Leadersunk: are new models… Continue reading Leaders in innovation

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] How do you set the conditions for innovation within an organisation? ComSuper and the Australian Bureau of Statistics shared some insights at an Innovation Month 2014 event on 25 July. ComSuper Dr Jill Chalker, CEO of ComSuper, started by sharing some details… Continue reading Creating a culture and environment for innovation

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] Where could you hear a talk about public sector innovation that references Captain America? GovCamp Australia! Saturday 19 July saw the first national GovCamp Australia, held as part of Innovation Month 2014. It was held in six cities (Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne,… Continue reading Evolution or Revolution? A report back on GovCamp Australia 2014

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] Who likes failure? Who likes admitting that they’ve failed? These were some of the questions that inspired the first Innovation Month 2014 “Uncomfortable Ideas” lunchtime series topic “Failure: is it the dirty word that we can all learn from”. Failure is… Continue reading Failure – what is it good for?

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] The public service is operating in an environment of constant change. How do we manage this, and what are the different models available for how the public sector might operate differently? On the afternoon of Thursday 10 July, Professor John… Continue reading Innovation Month 2014 – Presentation by Professor John Halligan

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] Communicating new ideas and new information can be tricky. Putting data, information and ideas into a visual form can be a powerful way of cutting through noise, of making the pertinent points clear and helping your audience see what… Continue reading Innovation Month 2014 – Policy Visualisation Network event

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] How can we break out of our routines, the patterns that we fall in, and consider new ways of doing things? Attendees at the Pattern Breaking Summit, held as part of Innovation Month, heard from seven great speakers with… Continue reading Dinosaurs, Chaos, Innovation 3.0 and Game of Thrones – an overview of the Pattern Breaking Summit of Innovation Month

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] This post should be read in conjunction with ‘Establishing, running and closing a public sector innovation lab – a reflection on the DesignGov experiment‘.  What do you need to consider in setting up a public sector innovation lab? What is… Continue reading Establishing, running and closing a public sector innovation lab

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] This is an accompanying post to ‘Establishing, running and closing a public sector innovation lab – a reflection on the DesignGov experiment’ and should be read in conjunction to it. The following is an attempt at a complete and consolidated annotated… Continue reading DesignGov (the Australian Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design) – the context for its establishment

[Originally published on the Australian Government Public Sector Innovation Network under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY AU licence] How do you go about setting up a public sector innovation lab? Before the end of DesignGov, members of the team considered what some of the main lessons were and we shared many of those through the DesignGov blog.… Continue reading Establishing, running and closing a public sector innovation lab – a reflection on the DesignGov experiment