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Leading Innovation within Government Agencies: What to Drive and What to Avoid

As innovation professionals, we too often look for inspiration from organizations such as Apple, Amazon, Tesla, Spotify, Google, etc. Cultures within these businesses are encourage transparency, experimentation and autonomy resulting in engaged workforce of the best and brightest minds, pumping out game changing products on-schedule, on-budget and on-point. We want that for the organizations that we support. We want to drive those behaviors.

Ideascale2022-01-24T16:39:19-08:00May 6th, 2019|Categories: Enabling Factors, Organization & Culture|Tags: Best Practices, Change Management, disruption, government, impact, innovation policy, lessons learned, partnerships, public sector, Stakeholders, unicorn|

The Key Challenges of Government Innovation

Last month, leaders in public sector innovation gathered to discuss ways of crowdsourcing new solutions to longstanding problems at IdeaScale’s Open Nation DC. Speakers from a range of agencies as diverse as the FDA and the US Coast Guard presented best practices on creating actionable change in government.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T15:58:56-08:00May 21st, 2018|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, communications, goal setting, government, government innovation, idea management, IdeaScale, Ideation, incentives, innovators, milestones, open nation, outreach, public sector, public sector innovation, regulation, resource allocation, results|

The Future of Civic Engagement and Innovation

Numerous leaders and community organizers have been talking about public service lately, especially in the US - mostly encouraging the public to take place in ongoing dialogues and to volunteer in their communities in order to create positive change at local and national levels.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-14T06:33:59-08:00February 6th, 2017|Categories: News, Trend Alert|Tags: Calgary, case study, Change Management, citizen engagement, citizen science, civic engagement, Communication, Crowdsourcing, Employee Engagement, government innovation, Ideation, public sector, refinement|

Involving Citizens in Government Product Development

The election of 2016 will certainly be one for the history books. Regardless of your political leanings, there was one sure thing to celebrate during this election cycle. The Innovate Your State Fix California Challenge—a crowdsourcing campaign aimed at promoting public participation in order to determine ways to improve government—had an initiative on the ballot in California!

Rob Hoehn2021-12-07T16:14:46-08:00December 19th, 2016|Categories: Enabling Factors, News, Strategies|Tags: california, challenge driven innovation, citizen engagement, Crowdsourcing, government product development, open government, Product Development, proposition 54, public sector, public sector innovation, smart cities, transparency, USA|

Is Open Government the Same as Open Innovation?

For many years, companies were convinced of the competitive advantage of closed research and development. They jealously protected their intellectual property behind closed doors and dramatically revealed it to the public after years of development. This old model has since been replaced by open innovation.

Rob Hoehn2021-12-07T16:14:24-08:00December 5th, 2016|Categories: Column & Opinion, Enabling Factors, Open Innovation|Tags: challenge driven innovation, clean energy, Crowdsourcing, energy, Henry Chesbrough, IdeaScale, innovation policy, open government, Open Innovation, public policy, public sector, public sector innovation, R&D, solar energy, sunshot, transparency, USA|

Social Innovation – a Charity or Business as Usual?

Innovation in today’s business environment is a must. Opportunities for innovation can be a problem to solve, a demand to satisfy, needs to meet. However, increasingly inspiration for innovation does not come only from underserved or emerging markets, but also from the social sector.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:05:45-07:00December 7th, 2009|Categories: Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, cross-industry collaboration, innovation trends, public sector, social innovation, social issues, society|