Thank you again to the many fantastic people who helped to make a success of last week’s Festival of Ideas, which looked at innovation for independent living. At least, it seemed like a success to me, but we would really like your feedback. Please fill in this very brief online feedback form. Whether you attended […]
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“The desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world” wrote espionage novelist John LeCarre. Yet since the rise of the ‘knowledge economy’ that is where most leaders stay, locked away by organisational priorities and packed schedules. This can be an effective approach when we already know what needs to be done and […]
I have a piece on the Society Guardian blog today, commenting on the new innovation white paper from the Department for Innovation, Universities and skills (DIUS). It welcomes the strategy but says that mainstreaming innovation into public services is beyond any single strategy - it will require much political bravery and policy skill. […]
We’re not the only ones thinking about innovation in social care. Meet the Dragons is an RSA project to find great new ideas in social care. It has received over 140 submissions, and most of them came from third sector organisations. I think that’s a great validation of our focus on independent […]
Innovation, says the OEDC, is “new products, business processes and organic changes that create wealth or social welfare”. Richard Lyons, chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, defines it as “fresh thinking that creates value”.
The Economist ran a 14 page special report on innovation last month, which raised some interesting points and really […]
I attended an interesting ACEVO dinner for ‘Young CEOs’ a couple of weeks ago. Phil Hope, Minister for the Third Sector, gave an excellent account of himself and shower himself to be just as well informed and insightful as his predecessor.
Discussion inevitably turned to commissioning and the challenges facing those of us trying to […]
The chancellor announced the government’s spending plans for the next three years recently, and many people in central or local government seem to have responded to the smaller increases (or cuts) by turning their back on innovation and getting on with protecting their existing service provision and creating cost savings. Surely this is not the […]
