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31 January 2019

Why innovation matters more now than ever before

Ever since governments have first existed, they have innovated. Often this has been in small ways, with minor changes to how they operate or tinkering with services and practices. Other times it has been in…

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OPSI

20 November 2018

New Report – The Innovation System of the Public Service of Canada

Country Studies, How to innovate, Research, Systems Thinking, Updates on the OPSI

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Alex Roberts

26 July 2018

Politeness as process, manners as method

How to innovate

If you have a good idea, does being polite help or hinder you when you try to introduce it? Or to put it another way, if you have an innovative proposal that you want to…

Public Sector

Angela Hanson

21 March 2018

SXSW talks city innovation and complexity

Event, How to innovate

Last week, I spoke about city innovation at SXSW (South by South West) festival as part of its inaugural Cities Summit program. SXSW is an annual design, technology, and innovation conference held in Texas. Typically…

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Piret Tõnurist

7 March 2017

A Debate about Uncertainty, Held in the Heart of Certainty

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On the 28th of February, policy makers, systems thinkers, designers, academics and others convened in Paris for an all day workshop discussing new ways to address public challenges marked by complexity and ambiguity inherent to…

Public Sector Systems Change

Piret Tõnurist

24 October 2016

Systems Approaches for Public Policy Challenges

Event, How to innovate, Systems Thinking

Innovation in the public sector has a positive connotation and is regarded as an inherently good thing in many administrative contexts. But even when we acknowledge the act of doing something new is to be…

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