Building innovation

capacity & leadership

Christian Bason, Director, MindLab

FrameworkSystematic innovation

The innovation pyramidBuilding capacity at all levels

Leadership

Courage to drive innovation

Shifts in innovation approaches

From random innovation to a conscious andconscious andconscious andconscious and

systematic approach systematic approach systematic approach systematic approach to public sector renewal

From managing human resources to buildingbuildingbuildingbuilding

innovation capacity innovation capacity innovation capacity innovation capacity at all levels of government

From running tasks and projects to orchestrating processes orchestrating processes orchestrating processes orchestrating processes of coof coof coof co----creationcreationcreationcreation, creating new solutions with people, not for them

From administrating public organisations to courageously courageously courageously courageously leading leading leading leading innovation across and beyond the public sector.

The innovation eco-system

CCCCOURAGE(TO LEAD)

CCCCONSCIOUSNESS(CREATING A NEW LANGUAGE)

CCCCO-CREATION(ORCHESTRATING THE PROCESS)

CCCCAPACITY(POWER TO INNOVATE)

Capacity: The innovation pyramid

Context

Strategy

People & culture

Organisation & technology

Institutionalcontext

Organisation

Objectives

PoliticallyPoliticallyPoliticallyPolitically governedgovernedgovernedgoverned organisationorganisationorganisationorganisation MarketMarketMarketMarket----basedbasedbasedbased organisationorganisationorganisationorganisation

Managing political context

Strategy: The innovation cycle

OutcomesOutcomesOutcomesOutcomes

FundingFundingFundingFunding

Innovation Innovation Innovation Innovation effortseffortseffortsefforts

StrategicStrategicStrategicStrategic objectivesobjectivesobjectivesobjectives

Public administrationPublic administrationPublic administrationPublic administration

LawEconomics

Political science...

ProfessionProfessionProfessionProfession

MedicineNursing

PedagogicsSocial workEngineeringTechnology

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Social researchSocial researchSocial researchSocial research

AnthropologyEthnologySociology

Psychology...

Design Design Design Design thinkingthinkingthinkingthinking

DesignArchitecture

Communication...

CoCoCoCo----creatingcreatingcreatingcreating

People: Competencies for innovation

What is courage?

“Courage comes from the willingness to ‘die,’to go forth into an unknown territory that begins to manifest only after you dare to step into that void. That is the essence of leadership.”

C. Otto Scharmer, MIT