Making the Case for Ambiguity in Government Innovation
One of the key principles of design is positive ambiguity. Learn how it can be an enabler of government innovation.
Posts Tagged: innovation
How We Are Enabling Government Innovation with You
There is quite a bit of innovation occurring across the government, but it’s difficult to know who is doing what where. Join us as we collectively co-design opportunities to concretely share and connect with innovators across the government.
How to Overcome the 3 Most Common Barriers to Innovation in Government Acquisition
Learn about the most common barriers to innovation in government acquisition — and potential ways to overcome them to truly wrap innovation into acquisition efforts and help government keep pace with technology.
How to Create High-Performing Teams with an Open Source Approach
How can your agency’s team improve its software and processes by focusing first on culture and people? Moving to a culture of open source.
Methods to Tune Up Your Shop
Like every well-oiled machine, there comes a time to re-evaluate the functionality of an organization. Here are steps you can take to “tune up shop.”
Making The Case for API
Let’s face it. We live in an age of constantly changing, ever expanding technologies. But if used properly, APIs can help.
Can We Get a Re-Do on Government-Supported Parental Leave?
People work, life happens, people have kids and need to have flexible leave options when they do. How can employers in 2018 do better when it comes to innovating and improving parental leave policies?
Public Servants Can Be Innovative Too!
We are experiencing a shift of thinking and how we do business in government. Public servants are intrapreneurs rather than “lazy” government workers.
Driving Government Innovation Through Chance Encounters
What do Bell Labs, Apple, the State of Rhode Island and Wake County, North Carolina have in common? They all created environments that facilitate interdisciplinary connections to drive new ideas, based on the understanding that innovation is most likely to happen through collaboration as opposed to the lone inventor working in isolation.
Love Your Dissenters: Achieving Innovation in Disagreement
If we truly want to be innovative thinkers and outside-of-the-box problem solvers, we must force ourselves outside the box of our self-affirming minds.