what is innovation?

What is innovation? Something new - an idea, method, approach or

device Usually breathtakingly simple Produces something better

Innovation = Change that creates a new dimension of performance

orChange that outperforms previous practice

………It is not change for change’s sake

Why the need for innovation?

1. Comprehensive Spending Review requires year on year cost savings;

2. Public expectations increasing;

3. Innovation leads to new solutions to old, complex problems.

“The need for public sector innovation is going to become more pressing. Demand for care, health and education is set to grow faster than most other sectors.” - Total Innovation: Innovation White Paper” (DIUS, March 2008)

Innovations in public sector delivery

Management hierarchies

Chief Officer/CEO

Senior management

Operational

management

Front-line staff

Decisions Actions

Customers

Our ten ‘rules’ of innovation

Innovation comes from people, not from committees or studies

Innovations come from looking at the opportunity Innovators see potential and solutions, not

problems Successful innovators tend to have a supportive

manager or sponsor

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules

Alan Bennett, writer and playwright

Innovators like risk-taking but understand the boundaries and limitations

Innovation depends more on the timing of resources than the amount

Small amounts of money can be used to make big differences

Innovators seek to change behaviour Innovation succeeds through trial and

error, until the best solution is found Innovators find time to work on their

innovations without affecting their other priorities

Our ten ‘rules’ of innovation

Energetic Keen to get stuck in Focussed on getting results Takes personal responsibility Desires to make things better Team instincts

….Are you an innovator?

What makes an innovator?

The Innovators Curve

TIPPING POINT

The innovator’s three steps

1. Identify a practice

that is not working well

2. Imagine something that will do the job better

3. Come up with a quick and inexpensive project to test the new idea

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