Tim Kastellepublic service innovation – Tim Kastelle https://timkastelle.org Build Autonomy & Impact With Ideas Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:50:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 36782504 public service innovation https://timkastelle.org/blog/2009/10/public-service-innovation/ https://timkastelle.org/blog/2009/10/public-service-innovation/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:15:43 +0000 Tim Kastelle https://timkastelle.org/blog/?p=556 I was talking to one of my MBA students today about innovation the public sector. He was having problems figuring out how a government department could be innovative. How about this?

How about this?

You can innovate anywhere – but you have to want to do it. Even in situations where you face financial constraints, why not try ideas that are cheap (or free)? Innovation is executing ideas – and everyone has at least some scope to experiment. I think that everyone should make an effort to figure out how much experimental scope they have, and then start thinking about the ideas that they can try out within that space. It doesn’t matter if you’re in an organisation or a sector that isn’t innovative – there are opportunities for everyone. You just have to be willing to try things out.

(Hat tip to Dan Pink)

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