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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 or Change that outperforms previous practice ………It is not change for change’s sake.

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What is innovation?

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  1. 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 or Change that outperforms previous practice ………It is not change for change’s sake

  2. Why the need for innovation? • Comprehensive Spending Review requires year on year cost savings; • Public expectations increasing; • 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)

  3. Innovations in public sector delivery

  4. Management hierarchies Actions Decisions Chief Officer/CEO Senior management Operational management Front-line staff Customers

  5. Our ten ‘rules’ of innovation We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules Alan Bennett, writer and playwright • 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

  6. Our ten ‘rules’ of innovation • 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

  7. What makes an innovator? • Energetic • Keen to get stuck in • Focussed on getting results • Takes personal responsibility • Desires to make things better • Team instincts ….Are you an innovator?

  8. TIPPING POINT The Innovators Curve

  9. The innovator’s three steps • Identify a practice that is not working well 3. Come up with a quick and inexpensive project to test the new idea 2. Imagine something that will do the job better

  10. Community Change - Sparkplugs

  11. Message in a Bottle - Brighton

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