LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND INNOVATION

Irene LucasDirector General Local Government and Regeneration

Wednesday 30th September 2009

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Today Today

•When to innovate

•Creating the conditions for innovation

•Making it real

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Why innovate?Why innovate?

Crisis

Wicked Tame

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Doing things differentlyDoing 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 Releasing the potential of everyoneeveryone

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ReleasingReleasing the potential of the potential of everyoneeveryone

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Who should innovate?Who should innovate?

When to innovate

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The innovation modelThe innovation model

Whole system contribution

The decision-makers(Whitehall, Local Government, Stakeholders)

The decision-shapers

Views of service-users

National and international research and best practice

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Creating the conditions for Creating the conditions for innovationinnovation

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Creating the conditionsCreating 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 Whitehall, Town Hall and CommunitiesCommunities

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What prevents innovation?What prevents innovation?

Which is the flower?

Which is the weed?

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The innovation model The innovation model

Whole system contribution

The decision-makers(Whitehall, Local Government, Stakeholders)

The decision-shapers

Views of service-users

National and international research and best practice

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Public sector innovation in practisePublic sector innovation in practise

The problem…

The solution?

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Colleagues and InnovationColleagues and Innovation

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Where do the good ideas Where do the good ideas come from?come from?

“Take the blackberries off the

suits”

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Public sector innovation in practicePublic sector innovation in practice

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The innovation model The innovation model

Whole system contribution

The decision-makers(Whitehall, Local Government, Stakeholders)

The decision-shapers

Views of service-users

National and international research and best practice

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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 innovationCreating conditions for innovation

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Public sector innovation in practicePublic sector innovation in practice

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Public sector innovation and the Public sector innovation and the recessionrecession

“We are on your side”

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The innovation model The innovation model

Whole system contribution

The decision-makers(Whitehall, Local Government, Stakeholders)

The decision-shapers

Views of service-users

National and international research and best practice

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Councillor Jon CollinsLeader, Nottingham City Council

Jon Peace

Chairman of Experian, Burberry Group plc and

Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC.

Jane Todd, Chief Executive, Nottingham City Council

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Public Sector Innovation and the Public Sector Innovation and the RecessionRecession

“We are on your side” campaign

• Short term solution

• Mid term solution

• Long term solution

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Making it realMaking it real

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Creating the conditionsCreating the conditions

None of us isNone of us isas clever as all of usas clever as all of us