Innovation Playbook

1. Support Testing - using methods designed to be adaptable and sustainable for future challenges.

2. Portfolio Approach - using a variety of innovation projects together to manage and balance risks and impacts.

3. Politicians Explicitly Endorse Innovation - politicians raise awareness, support strategic directions, adopt whole-of-government strategies, and ensure public messages endorse and support innovation within the public sector and beyond​​.

4. Innovation Sector Transversality - ensuring innovation cuts across government sectors and organisations by promoting collaboration and preventing innovation from becoming siloed within specialised teams​​.

5. Innovation Organisational Transversality - Promoting cross-organisational collaboration, shared structures, and systemic approaches that support innovation across different public sector entities and prevent isolation of innovative efforts​​.

6. Innovation Networks - exchanging insights and experiences gained from innovation projects.

7. Regulatory Instrument Support - adopting flexible regulatory mechanisms, innovative procurement practices, and legal instruments that incentivise and sustain innovation initiatives within the public sector​​.

8. Funding Instruments Support - providing dedicated funding, budgets for experimentation, and financial instruments that support the design, development, and implementation of innovative initiatives within the public sector​​.

9. Public Sector Leaders Explicitly Endorse Innovation - public sector leaders contribute to the adoption of innovative visions and missions, communicate support, tackle barriers, and ensure the sustainability of innovation strategies that can outlive political cycles​​.

10. Management Instruments Support - ensuring management processes are flexible, support experimental approaches, and do not hinder innovative activities, by identifying and addressing administrative bottlenecks​​.

11. Public Servant Engagement - increasing the involvement of public servants in innovation activities and projects.

12. Interdepartmental Collaboration - assigning tasks that require cross-functional collaboration and perspectives.

13. Transversal Assignments - preserving and utilising the accumulated knowledge and experience within an organisation.

14. Innovation Stories - encouraging cooperation and joint efforts between different departments.

15. Innovation Benefit Demonstrated - building connections and collaborations between innovators and organisations.

16. Safe Spaces - actively trying out new ideas and methods to develop innovative solutions.

17. Institutional Memory - providing clear evidence of the advantages brought by innovation.

18. Culture Of Innovation - creating an environment that encourages and supports new ideas and innovation.

19. Management Reward - utilising controlled environments to test and refine new ideas and innovations.

20. Design Support - providing resources and tools to help design innovative initiatives, ensuring a clear mandate for engagement, and an environment conducive to innovation​​.

21. Development Support - systematic support for developing innovative initiatives through collaboration across sectors, ensuring alignment with government agendas, and facilitating synergies and resource transfers​​.

22. Implementation Support - providing the necessary resources, time, and authorising environment for public officials to implement innovative approaches, including the support from managers and appropriate management structures​​.

23. Share Practices - refers to the systematic approach to disseminating knowledge, lessons learned, and innovative practices across various departments, sectors, and organisations. This includes both successful and unsuccessful initiatives to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

24. Management Acknowledgment - providing assistance and resources within management to help implement innovative ideas.

25. Management Support - rewarding individuals or teams for adopting and implementing innovative solutions.

26. Design Stewardship - stewardship involves ensuring innovative initiatives have guidance and support, preventing innovation from becoming isolated in specialised teams, and promoting collaboration and shared responsibilities across government​​.

27. Development Stewardship - sustaining innovative initiatives through collaborative mechanisms, ensuring complementarity across government strategies, and supporting shared structures that provide advice and resources for innovation​​.

28. Implementation Stewardship - stewarding innovative initiatives by ensuring they have necessary resources, flexible administrative processes, and supportive management models that promote experimentation and learning​​.

29. Action Translation - translating strategic goals and commitments around innovation into practical initiatives, providing adequate details on how to materialise and accomplish them, and ensuring public servants and organisations have access to tools and processes​​.

30. Embedded Evaluation - continuously measuring the impact and progress of innovations as they are implemented.

31. Embedded Measurement - spreading the knowledge gained from innovation projects across different contexts.

32. Future-Fit Methodologies - sharing narratives of innovation successes and lessons learned.

33. Use Of Sandboxes - using experimental settings to trial and evaluate new technologies and methods.

34. Use Of Testbeds - creating environments where experimentation and failure are accepted as part of the innovation process.

35. Experimentation - disseminating knowledge gained from innovation projects to a wider audience.

36. Sharing Lessons - conducting trials to assess the viability and effectiveness of innovations.

37. Sharing Learnings - integrating evaluation processes into the implementation of innovations.

38. Diffuse Lessons - exchanging effective practices and strategies for innovation.

39. Testing - repeatedly refining and improving innovations based on feedback and results.

40. Iteration - providing resources and conditions conducive to thorough testing of innovations.

What resources do we have to test new ideas?

How can we manage a mix of different types of innovation projects together?

How can politicians openly support and promote new ideas and changes?

How can we make sure innovation happens across different sectors of government?

How can we ensure innovation happens across different organizations?

How are we connecting with other innovators and organizations?

What rules and regulations can help support innovation?

What sources of money can help support innovation?

What can public sector leaders do to clearly support and encourage innovation?

What management tools can help support innovation?

How can we get public servants involved and interested in innovation projects?

How are different departments working together?

What tasks require people from different areas to work together?

How are we telling stories about our innovation successes?

How are we showing clear proof that our innovations are beneficial?

How do we create places where it's okay to fail and try again?

How are we keeping and using the knowledge we've gained over time?

How can we create a supportive environment that encourages trying new ideas and learning from mistakes?

What rewards are in place for people who use new ideas?

What help is available for designing new innovative ideas?

How can we get help to develop new innovative ideas?

What support is there for putting new innovative ideas into action?

How do we share effective ways to innovate?

How does management recognize when new ideas are used?

How does management help support new ideas?

Who can guide us in designing new innovative ideas?

Who can guide us in developing new innovative ideas?

Who can help guide us in implementing new innovative ideas?

How can we turn our ideas and plans for innovation into real actions?

How do we evaluate our projects as we go?

How do we measure the impact of our innovations continuously?

What methods are we using that will work well in the future?

How are we using safe spaces to test new ideas?

How are we trying out new methods in experimental settings?

What new ideas are we actively trying?

How do we share what we learn from our projects?

How do we share what we've learned from our projects?

What is your role in a community of practice around innovating?

How do we test our new ideas to see if they work?

How are we making improvements to our ideas based on feedback?