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How to scale impact through innovation and transformation

Career Advice

Openness is key to scaling anything. It is how we can influence the system and inspire and enable people to individually engage with and take responsibility for better outcomes and innovate at a grassroots level. It is how we ensure our work is evidence based, better informed and better tested, through public peer review.

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Toxic leaders and how to get over them once they’re gone … innovation labs and design thinking … making services that work for people …

By Harley Dennett

News

How organisations manage the aftermath of toxic leadership. Public sector innovation: the rise of innovation labs and design thinking; embedding open innovation. Making services that work for people.

Tim Kastelle: three flawed ideas that create innovation theatre

By Tim Kastelle

Features

Stop play-acting on innovation. Innovation, writes one business guru, is about executing new ideas to create value. Government agencies could learn a lot in walking the walk.

Public sector innovation fund launched by Victorian government

By David Donaldson

Career Advice

Victorian government departments and agencies can now apply for grants to improve processes and technologies, with the launch of the Public Sector Innovation Fund.

Open innovation push to drive start-up economic mentality

By The Mandarin

Features

With a Prime Minister talking more about innovation, government is seeking closer ties with start-ups. A new partnership in Melbourne is helping foster new connections and entrepreneurship.

How to innovate like a start-up – lessons for the public sector

By Tom Burton

Features

An open development model is helping government agencies bring new applications rapidly to their citizens.

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