Innovating in the Public Sector: Fiction or Reality

Description

Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online.

Course Length: 2 Days

Target Audience: General

Goal:

Everywhere we talk about the need to innovate for our organizations. The market forces companies to innovate, but what about our public organizations? Is it possible to innovate in the public service, and if so, how? Besides being very practical, lively and participatory, this workshop represents the results of several serious research and numerous application examples. The facilitator has developed an approach to maximize the creative potential of teams and will pursue this discussion with the participants in the context of the public service.

Learning Objectives:

• To understand individuals’ creativity
• Discover the secrets of innovative organizations
• Consider innovation in the context of the public service
• Explore management practices that foster innovation
• Understanding the use and application of tools for creativity in the pursuit of innovation
• Know how to use the internal skills and structure its organization to innovate

Course Content:

• • Innovation in the Public Service: Possibility or Necessity?
    • The reality of public service
    • The features, myths and challenges of public service
    • Organizational culture: The benefits and misfortunes
    • The opportunity to become a model of public management

• • The Innovative Organization
  • • What is creativity and where does it come from?
    • Difference between creativity and innovation
    • The need and applications of innovation in the public service
    • The strategies of the past and the future
    • Examples of success
    • Three components to transform creativity into innovation

• • Developing Creative Skills
  • • Creativity accessible to all
    • The characteristics of a creative person
    • Creativity and intelligence
    • Two types of thinking / two types of jurisdiction
    • The secrets of creative geniuses
    • DNA Innovator: The behaviours that lead to creativity
    • The personal qualities of the innovator
    • Support the development of innovation skills

• • Transforming the creativity to innovation
    • Create winning conditions
      • Where and how to innovate?
      • Different stimulants
      • Potential actors
      • Clients and innovation
      • The ability to innovate: Five essential conditions
      • A culture of innovation
  • The three pillars of an innovative organization
    • Individuals
      • The creative skills
      • Expertise and knowledge
      • The motivation for the task
    • The work environment
      • Resource
      • The team
      • Management practices
    • The leadership of innovation
      • A shared vision
      • The strategy of innovation
      • Structure and Process

• • Develop a strategy for innovation
  • • Implement pillars: Four large blocks of decision and action
      • The guidelines
      • Roles and responsibilities
      • Support mechanisms
      • Monitoring mechanisms
    • Some considerations in the innovation strategy
      • Governance
      • Principles of management
      • Adaptation of existing processes
      • Allocation of resources
      • The stimulation activities and exchange
      • Talent management: Attracting, developing and retaining talent
      • The management ideas
      • Communication / mobilization
      • Understand our organizational barriers to innovation and eliminate

• • Tools of creativity
  • • Meeting the challenges with a creative process
    • Measuring out divergence and convergence
    • Ask the right questions / identifying issues
    • The role and deployment of creative tools
    • The conditions for successful ideation sessions
    • Must-tools

• • Conclusion
  • • The coming decades
    • The challenges of innovation in our public organizations

Note: The course outline may be subject to change.