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A Brief History of Open Government

IdeaScale

Open government is based upon the idea that governments function better when citizens play an active role in creating policy. Crucial to this type of engagement is the availability and accessibility of government data. The future of participation : How will government encourage participation from all citizens?

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Enhancing child and family well-being using Family Resource Centers

Christensen Institute

In our latest report, “ From child welfare to well-being: A blueprint for CBOs and government agencies ,” we unveil the business models that enable prevention-oriented CBOs and prevention-enabling government agencies to enhance child and family well-being. Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021).

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IdeaScale CEO Shares Innovation Tips with SuperbCrew

IdeaScale

From his background in crowdsourcing software as part of the open government initiative, Rob and co-founder Vivek Bhaskaran founded IdeaScale, which was promptly adopted by 23 federal agencies. Rob Hoehn started his crowdsourcing software career as part of the open government initiative in 2009.?.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

Those units aren’t aligned nor working together to deliver upon the strategies, and there’s limited governance of the processes from start to finish and hardly any suitable tools to manage those processes. These are all managed as Portfolios, and they filter back up to the Strategy and Governance.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. Organizations should make changes in their strategy, governance, engagement, and incentives.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

That might be in relatively small ways like sharing and disseminating knowledge about tools and behaviors that enhance virtual / remote collaboration. And it might be larger ways such as helping to drive or facilitate innovation processes that identify ways your organization can help our communities and our governments (e.g.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

These games are wonderful at promoting teamwork, camaraderie and collaboration, because they allow us to be children again and experience the unbridled joy of being silly, of failing and trying again. This model of unbridled creativity made Zappos wildly successful and it was acquired by Amazon in 2009.