FOMENTING PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION INDUCTION STRATEGIES Public Sector
FOMENTING PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION: INDUCTION STRATEGIES Public Sector Innovation Week - Turning Ideas into Solutions. 2 December 2015, Brasilia Marco Daglio Project Manager Observatory of Public Sector Innovation Public Governance and Territorial Development OECD
Innovation lifecycle Identifying issues • Needs assessment • Horizon scanning Generating ideas • Sourcing • Selecting Diffusing Evaluating • Growing • Impact assessment • Capacity assessment • Scaling Developing • Making the case • Risk assessment Implementing • Testing / prototyping • Resourcing • Knowledge flows
Enabling innovation Targeting resources Making innovation part of the day job Getting leaders on board Leveraging networks Co-producing with users Trialling and making mistakes
Getting Leaders on Board Canada’s Central Innovation Hub • Housed in the Privy Council Office, acts as an information and guidance resource for all government departments • Connects innovators across government and sectors • An innovation catalyst, creating solutions for different policy, program and public service challenges
Making Innovation Part of the Day Job Belgium’s "Spring uit de band" (jump wild, become crazy) • An innovative learning network in the Flemish government that coaches civil servants and projects • The network creates a more innovative climate and encourages collaboration across departments • The learning program helps refine innovation processes and supports innovators learn in government
Trialling and Making Mistakes Finland’s Cardboard Hospital • Provides opportunity for staff, architects and patients to co-design Hospital infrastructure and services • New ideas and better evaluation are enabled through a reconstructed physical space and environment • A cross-disciplinary group negotiates differing needs in a constructive way aiming for an end result through the prototyping activity
Targeting Resources The UK’s Impact Readiness Fund • £ 2 million Cabinet Office Impact Readiness Fund pilot funds social ventures to put systems, processes, and governance in place to understand improve social impact • Generates lessons on models of capacity building support that can be scaled up • Helps social sector collect, manage and analyse data to manage business and maximise impact
Co-producing With Users Netherland’s Municipal Budget “Citizen Experts” • City of Zeist launched citizen engagement process on 2010 austerity dialogue to close € 6 million budget gap • Citizens co-commissioned new solutions with the municipality for more efficient service delivery • 95% of the 200 “citizen experts” proposals were adopted by city council without any changes
Leveraging Networks The U. S. ’s LAUNCH • A global innovation platform created by NASA, USAID, Department of State and NIKE to pool resources to seek innovative technologies and ideas for development • Searches for transformative innovations and connects to thought leaders and experts to implement 10 innovators’ projects without using government funding • Focus on transforming materials and manufacturing systems to have social, environmental and economic impacts
“I will be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines? ”
What can we do? A Call to Action Building innovative capacity across the public sector means focusing on: – the people involved – the information they are using – the rules and processes which govern their work – the ways in which they are working together
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