Streamline your Innovation Approval Process

Try this exercise.  Draw a flow chart diagram of your organisation’s approval process for innovations. Pick an example for a theoretical new idea. Suppose it is a good idea to improve customers’ satisfaction that would involve significant spending and the co-operation of several departments. What levels of approval and authority would it need to see the light [...]

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Innovation across Central Government

There is an informative investigation by the UK National Audit Office entitled, Achieving Innovation in Central Government Organisations.  It draws on evidence from specific innovation cases in the public sector to assess government productivity and effectiveness at innovation.

Among the findings are ‘Compared with leading commercial organisations, there is potential for departments to develop more [...]

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