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Category Archives: innovation
Innovation in Public Services: Small is Beautiful
An interesting item on NESTA’s website, with some accompanying useful resources, summarising the recent launch of the ‘Small is Beautiful’ paper on innovation in local government. NESTA supported the Local Government Information Unit to analyse the entries to its ‘Small … Continue reading
An interesting innovation discussion
An interesting exchange online happened last week after the wonderful Robert Brook posted a piece on his site entitled ‘Boring Innovation‘ – all about how innovation can best happen within large, complex organisations, like those you tend to find in … Continue reading
JFDI vs Being Boring
Light blogging recently, I’ve been gadding about talking at a load of events – which is fun and rewarding in its own way, but doesn’t really help with getting any work done, nor with writing here. Last Wednesday I was … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media, culture, innovation
Tagged culture, Events, government, jfdi, local government, Presentation, process, Social Media, strategy, sustainability
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Being up to date
James Gardner has a good post on staying up to date. His point is that if you don’t bother to follow the latest developments – which might mean doing so in your own, not work, time – then you’re going … Continue reading
Posted in culture, innovation
Tagged culture, innovation, knowledge, netwroking, performance, technology
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Fail better
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett, Worstword Ho (1983)
