creating the conditions for innovation in government
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Creating the conditions for innovation in government
Brenton CaffinWellington 24 October 2019
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Innovation in a public policy context
Creating the conditions for innovation
The role of leadership
50 shades of failure
Discussion
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Source: AFP
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What does innovation in government
look like around the world…
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Source: Museum of the Future, Dubai
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Policy LabCo-creating
policy with the
people affected
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So how do we make this happen?
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Landscape of innovation approaches
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Six principles to explore the unobvious
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Creating space for innovation craft
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Rehearsing new practices
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Building new competencies
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The role of leadership
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Public policy
A design problem?
“How can you make sensible policy or strategy in a nondeterministic, evolutionary,
highly complex world, that is, a world where the most desirable outcomes are
unknown but there may be many possible acceptable outcomes, where change is
characterized by both path dependence and unpredictability, and where there are
many diverse components, interactions, and feedback among components and
multiple dimensions to each problem? This is the design problem with respect to
public policy.”
Carlsson (2004:36)
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LEGACY: Traditional
public administration
CURRENT: New
Public Management
FUTURE: Networked
governance
Context Stable Competitive Continuously
changing
Population Homogeneous Atomized Diverse
Needs/problems Straightforward, defined
by professionals
Wants, expressed
through the market
Complex, volatile
and prone to risk
Strategy State and producer
centred
Market and customer
centred
Shaped by civil
society
Governance
through actors
Hierarchies
Public servants
Markets Purchasers
and providers Clients
and contractors
Networks and
partnerships
Civic leadership
Key concepts Public goods Public choice Public value
Alternative governance models
Source: Adapted after Jean Hartley (2005)
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Challenge #1: Empathic data
“To employees long accustomed to being told to be rational
and objective, these methods can seem rather subjective and
personal. Businesses want to understand their customers, of
course, but design thinking approaches to connecting with
customers can feel too close, uncomfortably emotive,
sometimes overwhelmingly affecting.”
Austin, R. & Bason, C. (2018) The Right Way to Lead Design
Thinking. HBR
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Challenge #2: Iteration
“Design methods ask employees not to race to the finish line, not to
converge on an answer as quickly as possible, and instead to widen
the set of options—to go sideways for a while rather than forward.
This can be difficult for people schooled in the need for efficiency,
the importance of cost savings, the value of being lean, and so on. It
can feel like “spinning wheels” because it kind of is.”
Austin, R. & Bason, C. (2018) The Right Way to Lead Design Thinking.
HBR
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Challenge #3: Learning to fail forward
“If that were not enough, design approaches also call on
employees to often experience something that they have
historically tried to avoid: failure. The aspects of these methods
that involve iterative prototyping and testing work best when they
produce lots of negative results, outcomes that show you what
does not work. But piling up seemingly unsuccessful outcomes
does not feel good to most people.”
Austin, R. & Bason, C. (2018) The Right Way to Lead Design
Thinking. HBR
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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing your Organisation and the World. Ronald
Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, Martin Linsky. Harvard Business Press, 2009
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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing your Organisation and the World. Ronald
Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, Martin Linsky. Harvard Business Press, 2009
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50 shades of failure
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When have you
experienced failure?
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What caused the failure?
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Would you consider
it a GOOD or BAD
failure?
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Deviance
Inattention
Lack of ability
Process inadequacy
Task challenge
Process complexity
Uncertainty
Lack of evidence
Causes of failure
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Spectrum of failure
Source: Amy Edmondson “Spectrum of Reasons for Failure” in “Strategies for Learning from Failure” (Harvard Business Review, April 2011
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Source: Amy Edmondson “Spectrum of Reasons for Failure” in “Strategies for Learning from Failure” (Harvard Business Review, April 2011
Where is your failure on this spectrum?
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A new rhetoric (or perhaps an old one)
Source: The Observer (1832)
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“The country needs and unless I mistake its temper the country demands bold persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Source: AFP
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