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WelcomeAlliance For Innovation
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Agenda• Alliance• The Myths of Innovation • Defining Innovation • 6 Qualities of Organizational Innovation• Getting Results • Risk Taking
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About the Alliance
• Founded 37 Years Ago
• Partners with Arizona State
University and ICMA
• 350+ Members
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MissionInspire Innovation to Advance Communities
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True or FalseInnovation Facts
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Enable Innovation through structure
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Early mistakes are profitable
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Defining Innovation
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Types• Adoption
• Adaptation
• Invention
• Diffusion
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Must Be Relevant, and Applied
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Six QualitiesOf Innovation
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"82% of Alliance members are above the average rate in their adoption of innovative
ideas" - ASU Study
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Inclusive Leadership
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Decatur, GA
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Recommendation #1
• Don’t design a process to
accept ideas you don’t plan to
carry out!
#Transformgov
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Relentless Creativity
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Bellevue, WA
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Recommendation #2
• Encourage questions rather
than immediate solutions.
#Transformgov
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Extensive Internal Partnerships
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Adams County, CO
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Recommendation #3
• Create cross collaborative
teams for new projects based
on talent.
#Transformgov
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Robust External Partnerships
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Fort Collins, CO
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Recommendation #4
• Ask “Who’s not at the table
that could also contribute?”
#Transformgov
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Authentic Community Connections
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Spanish LanguageLeadership Academy
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Recommendation #5
• Design a new process to
recruit the unheard voices.
#Transformgov
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Reality FocusedResults Driven
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StrathconaCanada
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Recommendation #6
• Don't punish people for
finding the data, incentivize!
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Six Qualities of Innovation
1. Inclusive Leadership2. Relentless Creativity3. Extensive Internal Partnerships4. Robust External Partnerships5. Authentic Community Connections6. Reality Focused Results Driven
What area can you commit to?
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Taking a risk is the actually the safest thing to do these days - Seth Godin
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Contact InfoEmail: [email protected]: www.transformgov.org
Twitter: @TransformGov@KUfudge
Thanks NRC!
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Q&A
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