Weekly bits of interest – 3 September 2012
Some recent developments and articles of interest: The Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations are c0-hosting a screening of...
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Design & Thinking Screening
What is design thinking and why does it matter? On Thursday 20 September over 100 public servants and interested others came together at the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations...
View ArticleInteraction between business and government – where might design help...
As my colleague Alex Marsden recently outlined, the first project for the Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design is looking at the interaction between business and government – how might we...
View ArticleSES Workshop with Design Firm [toughproblem]
On Wednesday 12 December, the Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design hosted a workshop for members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) from across the Australian Public Service to learn about...
View ArticleTowards a unified theory of ‘shiny new things’ for the public sector
What does design offer that we don’t already have in the public sector? How does design fit with what we already do or with other ‘new’ trends and techniques? In the public servant’s tool-set, when and...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 15 April 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Do you want to innovate, but don’t know where to start? Tim Kastelle provides a handy summary of 20 things that good managers know about innovation,...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 1 July 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: The US Government has announced the next round of its ‘Presidential Innovation Fellows’ program, where 43 people will be “here to serve 6- to 12-month...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 8 July 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Professor Sandford Borins provides a friendly critique of the recent contribution on public sector innovation from private sector innovation thinkers...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 16 September 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Recently Denmark’s MindLab hosted the ‘How Public Design?’ conference in Copenhagen and looked at design-led approaches to innovation in government....
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 8 October 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: MindLab shares some key highlights from their recent ‘How Public Design’ discussion which looked at some important questions about the public sector....
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Public sector innovation: a recap
Late last year I spoke to the Australian Taxation Office Innovation Community of Practice about DesignGov and what I have learnt about innovating in the public sector. None of this is likely to be new...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 14 April 2014
Some recent developments and articles of interest: It’s only 3 months until GovHack – registrations for the event are now open, with events happening around the country. On a related note, Brian Palmer...
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Innovation Showcase – Business Victoria website
This is a case study about the redevelopment of the Business Victoria website, and involves procurement, design thinking and Gov 2.0. Key details What is it? The redevelopment of the Business Victoria...
View ArticleNudge to the max? Reflections on Behavioural Exchange 2014
The following post details my personal reflections on the Behavioural Exchange 2014 Conference. An overview of what emerged from the conference is provided in a separate post. In my opinion,...
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Dinosaurs, Chaos, Innovation 3.0 and Game of Thrones – an overview of the...
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...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest 22 September 2014
Take a whistle-stop tour of what can be achieved through collaboration and how it enhances innovation, and the ‘good’, the ‘bad’ and the ‘ugly’ of public sector innovation narratives. Prototyping and...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 4 May 2015
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Abhay Adhikari shares insight into “How we created an on-demand Innovation Lab in a large public sector organisation“. “The one-day format we...
View ArticleWeekly bits of interest – 18 May 2015
Some recent developments and articles of interest: The head of the UK public service has encouraged participation in their first MOOC “Contract Management: Building Relationships in Business”....
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Can we innovate like Google?
How do you develop a culture of innovation as Google has done? On Tuesday 20 May a number of public servants from several departments attended a workshop at Google with Dr Frederik Pferdt, Google’s...
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Design-thinking Mentoring Programme: Discovery kick-off
How many public servants does it take to change the way we work? We don’t know yet but over 65 people at our discovery kick-off was a mighty good start! Who am I? Hello everyone. My name is Nikki...
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