Leading public sector innovation : co-creating for a better society /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Bason, Christian.
Imprint:Bristol, UK ; Portland, OR : Policy Press, c2010.
Description:ix, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8306507
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781847426338 (pbk.)
1847426336 (pbk.)
9781847426345 (hardback)
1847426344 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Highlights from a global movement
  • A brief history of public sector innovation
  • Co-creating for a better society
  • A century of wicked problems
  • A double innovation challenge
  • Not up to the job yet
  • Towards an innovation ecosystem
  • 1. The innovation ecosystem
  • An ecosystem for public sector innovation
  • Consciousness: the innovation landscape
  • Capacity: building innovation potential
  • Co-creation: designing and learning
  • Courage: leading the public sector of tomorrow
  • Generating resilience
  • Part 1. Consciousness
  • 2. Mapping the landscape
  • Innovation: from idea to value
  • Where does innovation come from?
  • What types of innovation are there?
  • The value of public sector innovation
  • Viewing the landscape
  • How to do it
  • Part 2. Capacity
  • 3. Political context
  • Normative context
  • Expectations
  • Competition
  • Risk finance and the innovator's dilemma
  • Out of the mental iron cage
  • How to do it
  • 4. Strategy
  • Key strategy concepts
  • Why are strategies for innovation important?
  • Approach: innovation strategy
  • Content: strategic innovation
  • Planning innovation?
  • How to do it
  • 5. Organising for innovation
  • The case for innovation collaboration
  • Public-public collaboration
  • Public-private innovation
  • Public-third-sector innovation
  • Giving innovation a home
  • E-innovation in government
  • How to do it
  • 6. People and culture
  • The future of work
  • Employee-driven innovation
  • Innovation culture, error and risk
  • Diversity as driver of innovation
  • Strategic competence development
  • Incentives
  • How to do it
  • Part 3. Co-creation
  • 7. Design thinking in government
  • Design, innovation and the public sector
  • Defining design thinking
  • A model of the design thinking process
  • Four credos
  • Challenges to design in government
  • How to do it
  • 8. Citizen involvement
  • What is the value of citizen involvement?
  • About professional empathy
  • The three myths of citizen involvement
  • Co-creating, co-producing
  • Informing about the present state
  • Creating a new future
  • When citizen involvement meets the design process
  • How to do it
  • 9. Orchestrating co-creation
  • A process for co-creation
  • Framing
  • Knowing
  • Analysing
  • Synthesising
  • Creating
  • Scaling
  • Learning
  • How to do it
  • Measuring to learn
  • What you measure...
  • Measuring innovation
  • Assessing innovation potential
  • Learning from the innovation process
  • Measuring the value of innovation
  • Innovating the bottom lines
  • Performance leadership
  • Outcome focus as an innovation driver?
  • How to do it
  • Part 4. Courage
  • 11. Four leadership roles
  • Between inspiration and execution
  • A typology of innovation leadership
  • The visionary: the political leader
  • The enabler: the top executive
  • The 360 degree innovator: the middle manager
  • The knowledge engineer: the institution head
  • About civil disobedience
  • How to do it
  • References
  • Index