We are in a knowledge economy, and ideas are its currency. All Governments create value for the publics they serve. This is fuelled by a flow of ideas to meet today's challenges, and to invent solutions for tomorrow's challenges.
All of us must nurture different types of ideas:
→ Ideas to improve 'my' work - personal, informal, and often invisible to others
→ Ideas to improve 'our' work - collaborating using more structured processes
→ Ideas to invent 'new' solutions - deliberate initiatives to solve challenges facing the organisation
→ Ideas to grow 'capacity to innovate - Investing to nurture a capacity to innovate in all staff within the organisation
The collection of 30 ideas, insights, and strategies is based on 15 years of public service innovation experience in Singapore, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. They offer a practical roadmap to understand the skills and knowledge to learn and use in our professional careers.