LOCAL GOVERNMENT
AND INNOVATION
Irene Lucas
Director General
Local Government and Regeneration
Wednesday 30th September 2009
Today
•When to innovate
•Creating the conditions for innovation
•Making it real
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Why innovate?
Crisis
Tame
Wicked
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Doing things differently
"To reach a goal you
have never before
attained, you must do
things you have
never before done."
Richard G. Scott
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Releasing the potential of
everyone
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Releasing the potential of
everyone
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Who should innovate?
When to innovate
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The innovation model
The decision-makers
(Whitehall, Local Government, Stakeholders)
The decision-shapers
National and
international
research and best
practice
Whole system
contribution
Views of serviceusers
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Creating the conditions for
innovation
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Creating the conditions
“A new idea is delicate.
It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;
It can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown
on the wrong person’s brow”
Charles Brower
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Whitehall, Town Hall and
Communities
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What prevents innovation?
Which is the flower?
Which is the weed?
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The innovation model
The decision-makers
(Whitehall, Local Government, Stakeholders)
The decision-shapers
National and
international
research and best
practice
Whole system
contribution
Views of serviceusers
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Public sector innovation in practise
The problem…
The solution?
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Colleagues and Innovation
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Where do the good ideas
come from?
“Take the
blackberries off the
suits”
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Public sector innovation in practice
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The innovation model
The decision-makers
(Whitehall, Local Government, Stakeholders)
The decision-shapers
National and
international
research and best
practice
Whole system
contribution
Views of serviceusers
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Professor Richard Layard
Programme Director - Wellbeing
London School of Economics
Professor Martin Seligman
Author - Authentic Happiness
Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania
Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan, Director of the Young Foundation
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Creating conditions for innovation
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Public sector innovation in practice
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Public sector innovation and the
recession
“We are on your side”
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The innovation model
The decision-makers
(Whitehall, Local Government, Stakeholders)
The decision-shapers
National and
international
research and best
practice
Whole system
contribution
Views of serviceusers
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Jon Peace
Chairman of Experian, Burberry Group plc and
Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC.
Councillor Jon Collins
Leader, Nottingham City Council
Jane Todd,
Chief Executive, Nottingham City Council
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Public Sector Innovation and the
Recession
“We are on your side” campaign
• Short term solution
• Mid term solution
• Long term solution
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Making it real
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Creating the conditions
None of us is
as clever as all of us
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