Public sector innovation
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Policy report
OECD Good practice principles for public service design and delivery in the digital age
The digital age provides great opportunities to transform how public services are designed and delivered. This publication provides a clear, actionable and comprehensive set of objectives for the high-quality digital transformation of public services.
Report
Science or stagnation? Next steps for life sciences policy in England
A key conclusion from this report is that the United Kingdom is unlikely to lead in an increasingly competitive, global life science market unless it has a clear sense of the role of government within the health research ecosystem – and a mechanism to deliver...
Report
Human-centricity in digital delivery: enhancing agile governance
This report makes recommendations to help governments to work together, and with external partners, to build competencies for redesigning public services in a way that benefits the users of those services.
Report
5-year Productivity Inquiry: innovation for the 98% - interim report
The Productivity Inquiry focuses on the enablers of productivity growth in a modern, market-based and service-oriented world. This third interim report explores how encouraging innovation across the vast majority of Australian businesses and in the government sector can improve Australia's productivity.
Report
Accelerating government innovation with leadership and stimulus funding
This report explores various ways that executives can leverage stimulus funding to incentivise success across multiple innovation and data roles, and drive forward work from those roles into digital service development and delivery. The author also develops a framework with specific recommendations for how leaders...
Working paper
Beyond outsourcing: re-embedding the State in public value production
Public Value Theory emerged within a broader public administration paradigm that called for the re-centering of the State in the identification and management of public activities. In this paper, the authors argue that the dis-embedding of the state from the production of public value undermines...
Report
Introduction to systems thinking for civil servants: driving improved outcomes in complex situations
The Government Office for Science (UK), in collaboration with the Policy Profession, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Systems Thinking Interest Group, has produced this suite of documents to promote and embed systems thinking across the civil service.
Working paper
Innovative capacity of governments: a systemic framework
Public sector innovation is about finding new and better ways to achieve positive public outcomes. To assist governments in achieving this this, the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) developed the 'Innovative Capacity Framework.'
Report
Agile government: the role of public affairs education
The most significant challenges facing public administration today include the isolation of public servants, the rigidity of the administrative and regulatory systems in which they operate, and the lack of opportunity to develop relevant and emerging competencies. This report is intended to initiate a dialog...
Case study
Mission-oriented innovation in action: 2021 casebook
The Mission-Oriented Innovation Network (MOIN) is a learning community, focused on purpose-driven policy and mission-oriented innovation within public bodies globally. This casebook is a compilation of stories documenting mission-oriented innovation in practice from members of the MOIN.
Strategy
Highly capable, future-ready: APS learning and development strategy
This strategy document highlights the need for a one-Australian Public Service (APS) approach to lifting the skills and capability of their workforce to ensure a high performing, driven and trusted APS.
Book
Human Learning Systems: public service for the real world
Human Learning Systems is a radically new way of doing public management - the task of resourcing and organising public service. This book pulls together insights from nearly fifty case studies from across the world, from organisations that are doing public management differently, using the...
Working paper
The OECD Framework for digital talent and skills in the public sector
This paper presents the OECD Framework for Digital Talent and Skills in the Public Sector, which highlights the need to create the right working environment, secure the right skills, and evolve the right workforce to support a progression from e-government to digital government.
Discussion paper
Finding the right skills for the civil service
This paper examines the skills that the civil service has and those it needs to meet the demands of government in the coming years. It considers how the civil service workforce is managed, and reviews progress made in recent years.
Article
Regulatory excellence
Regulators risk being captive to incumbent models of regulation that served the public reasonably well in the past but are no longer fit-for-purpose. This article discusses the Alberta Energy Regulator's strategic vision to instead be recognised as a best-in-class regulatory institution.
Policy report
The design and implementation of mission-oriented innovation policies
Based on 20 mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIP) initiative case studies and 4 MOIP country case studies, this report systemically formalise and categorise mission-oriented practices and patterns along the three dimensions of strategic orientation, policy co-ordination and policy implementation.
Working paper
Dynamic capabilities in the public sector: the case of the UK’s Government Digital Service
This study explores the concept of dynamic capabilities in the public sector. Using the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) as a case study, the authors demonstrate how such capabilities form and how they evolve over time.
Report
Technology and the future of the government workforce
New and emerging technologies will change government in a wide range of ways. This report assesses the state of this transformation in the UK, what it means for the government workforce, and what steps the government needs to take now to ensure that it manages...
Policy report
Collaborating after crisis
This policy brief argues that practitioners and scholars can work together better by pivoting from ‘big questions’ towards ‘big challenges,’ and finding new ways of working collaboratively, especially by drawing lessons from successful collaborations, rather than dwell on supposed tensions between scholars and practitioners.
Report
Using collective intelligence to solve public problems
This report lays out a clear framework with practical advice for how public bodies can use collective intelligence techniques to tackle community challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Policy report
Digital Government Index: 2019 results
This paper presents the overall rankings, results and key policy messages of the 2019 OECD Digital Government Index (DGI) and provides a detailed analysis of the results for each of the dimensions of the OECD Digital Government Policy Framework.
Report
The value of people power
Whether we call it formal or informal volunteering, giving, social action, mutual aid, or simply people helping people, the power of connecting and helping each other makes a huge contribution to society. This report includes an economic analysis of the value of people power and...
Briefing paper
The use of artificial intelligence by government: parliamentary and legal issues
This paper focuses on the parliamentary and legal implications of governments using a form of AI: automated-decision making (ADM), which is deployed in automated decision-making systems (ADMS). It discusses the implications, presents key parliamentary case studies, and sets out recommendations from the literature on how...
Working paper
Leadership for a high performing civil service: towards a senior civil service systems in OECD countries
Public service leaders are at the heart of government effectiveness. They translate political direction into the policies and programmes. In order to do so, they need to have both the right skills and institutional support to deploy them effectively. This paper summarises insights from a...
Report
Prioritising a government’s agenda
This paper argues that Australian governments would be better at policy reform if they prioritised their agenda better. The report suggests that governments should look for the reforms that will make more of a difference while minimising the political cost. This means assessing both the...