Innovation in Local Government

Jonathan Kestenbaum

Today I attended a lunchtime discussion on the hot topic of innovation in local government.  It was held at NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. It was on the launch of a booklet, More than Good Ideas; the power of innovation in local government. The speakers were:

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Resistance to Change

We had a lively meeting of the BQF Innovation Group yesterday.  It was kindly hosted by MITIE at their offices in the Counting House near London Bridge.  They presented a case study on overcoming resistance to change in a major corporate outsourcing project.  We then had a workshop session where we discussed change initiatives and [...]

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Note to Innovators – Re-use Previous

If you hold a brainstorm meeting and generate 90 ideas then the chances are that you whittle those down to a dozen promising ideas and then action the two or three best.  What happens to the other promising ideas that don’t make it onto the to-do list?  Ideally you should capture them in a database of [...]

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