public sector innovation

Have you seen a great idea in the public sector? Now is the time let your peers know good ideas can be rewarded by putting them up for the inaugural Public Sector Innovation Awards.

The public service needs open-minded leaders, ready to listen and brave enough to try new things, Health mandarin Martin Bowles told the 2015 Innovation Month Summit in Canberra. That means making time for blue-sky thinking — not excuses.

Digital offers public leaders a unique opportunity to rethink the relevance of their agency. Leading in the digital era requires a different approach to management and there are five core capabilities that are the foundation for any successful transformation.

Politicians want the public sector to innovate and claim there will be less punishment for taking risk. Here are some steps public bodies can take, at a leadership level, to make that happen.

The writer of the UK government’s pioneering report on innovation is back in Australia to work with agency leaders to foster a culture of innovation. He spoke to The Mandarin.

Across the Tasman, progress is being made in several difficult policy areas through collaboration and innovation in the public sector.

How do you drive innovation in the public sector without any money? Economist, consultant and commentator Nicholas Gruen offers some answers.

The role of the modern Australian public servant has changed significantly since the 1960s and ’70s. And not always for the better, writes The Mandarin‘s publisher.

The sector has changed, but have public servants changed with it? There’s new skills to learn as a mandarin of the 21st century …

Public servants want to innovate — but they need more freedom to do it. That was the message from one former top mandarin last week.