Energy Department Unleashes New Program to Stoke Innovation
The “Innovation Community Center” (ICC) is a digital hub that will invite internal and external stakeholders to solve challenges using emerging and inventive technologies.
Posts Tagged: innovation
Will you Build Your Future or Just Endure it?
Talk is cheap. Slides are cheaper. Too much comfort is lazy. The future keeps coming. If we want to be successful, we have to build it. It’s time to take control. Admit what you don’t know then set out to find or create the answers you need.
Using Creative Steps to Repair Potholes
Communities are coming up with creative ways to deal with potholes.
Showcasing 311 in Canada
Canada is a leader in sports and government services
Look Left & Right: Narrowing the Innovation Gap in Government Using Analogical Thinking
Government leaders and policymakers need to add analogical thinking to their innovation quiver. At the core of analogical thinking is the ability to solve problems outside-in instead of inside-out.
Academia Helps Cities Define Their Smart Cities Strategies
Public sector leaders need all the help that they can get in defining their Smart Cities strategy. With programs like the Smart Cities Innovation Accelerator by Harvard, it’s clear that academia is leading the way in offering this guidance.
A Surefire Plan for Avoiding Innovation Theater
If your organization doesn’t have a plan for how to scale and transition the innovations, you need one. Letting transformative products or concepts wither while they work through bureaucratic processes will kill organizational energy.
Fostering Rebel Talent
What ingredients need to be present for innovation to happen and for innovators (rebel talent) to have enough staying power to actually see change come to fruition?
What it Means to Be an ‘Open’ Leader Ready for Innovation
Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst writes that being an open leader means creating the context others need to do their best work.
Radical Ambition
Are you involved in projects that are daring in their visioning? If so, how do you preserve your vision as it goes through the approval process?