Big Ideas in the Public sector
Earlier this month the Center for American Progress Please join the Center for American Progress - in conjunction with the Young Foundation - released two practical innovation guides as part of their Doing What Works programme:
- Scaling New Heights: How to Spot Small Successes in the Public Sector and Make Them Big
- Capital Ideas: How to Generate Innovation in the Public Sector
The guides discuss why it is so difficult to innovate in the public sector, and provide thoughts on how government can begin generating and implementing new ideas. The absence of a profit motive requires different ways of inspiring great ideas and nurturing the best of them into social transformations that improve the world. Innovation in the public sector is not, however, an oxymoron and the guides provide many examples of governments around the world that are working on projects to spur innnovation and harness the ideas of their employees.
