On 12-13 November 2014, the OECD held an important conference. More than 400 people answered the call for action of the OECD Secretariat. The role of government is more challenging than ever, and the need for public innovation greater than ever, to find solutions to the challenges we are facing as a society.
Last week over three hundred people from the public, private and civil society sectors descended on the OECD in Paris. Why? To discuss an innovative public sector. For some of you that might sound like an oxymoron, but over two days stereotypes were left at the door as participants shared stories and learnt about innovation in the public sector.
What do innovation labs or teams do that existing structures and processes do not? Why are they needed? My own perspective on this question has undergone some evolution, informed by my involvement in an Australian experiment with an innovation lab – DesignGov. DesignGov was an 18 month pilot innovation team set up to explore different forms of collaboration and the application of design-led innovation to issues spanning multiple government agencies.
We have created the OPSI at the request of OECD member countries in order to help them solve the real world problems that they face today. That’s why each innovation presented in the OPSI website answers the question: “Why the innovation was developed?”
Following from its origins in the private sector, Lean has evolved into a quality and operational improvement philosophy based on improving customer experience, outcomes and efficiency. The Government of Canada is including a range of Lean methodologies aimed at streamlining business processes in people management, corporate activities and the delivery of grants and contributions.
When I think about social media use to improve service delivery, I intuitively think about the likes of Apple, Google or Amazon. And the way in which they use people’s own social media footprint as an advertising space (surely I am not the only one who at least once posted that message Amazon suggests after your purchase, the one that lets you share your purchase with your Facebook friends and Twitter followers). But actually my...
I welcome the OECD Public Sector Innovation initiative!
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Estonia has a new national digital strategy to guide the next wave of digital government innovation – taking the public sector services and governance to a new level with the help of ICT, including across borders.