Archive for 'Case Studies' Category

CIN Evaluation 2008-09

Posted by webmaster 18 March 2009

Commencing next week for a period of one month, the VPSCIN will be asking all members to provide some online feedback about the network and its activity, so we can review and improve the way we do things.
We will again be doing so via the mass capture of narrative from across the network of 3350 [...]

 

Innovation in the VPS, the upside, the downside & associated archetypes

Posted by webmaster 28 February 2009

On Friday Feb 27, 44 VPS staff participated in a full day workshop designed to explore and identify the key issues around innovation in the Victorian Public Service.
The full day session had two primary foci:

Mapping of the key issues associated with innovation in the VPS, and
Developing up a set of cultural archetypes the collectively represent [...]

 

Recession proofing

Posted by webmaster 13 February 2009

  
Tony Vickers-Willis who is no stranger to the VPS, has written an interesting paper about how to recession proof your business.
As we know, the usual response to tough times is to downsize, cut budget and cut staff. Normally the first to go are the the functions that non-strategic thinkers incorrectly view as “soft”. We all [...]

 

CIN “Refresh Your Life” pilot results

Posted by webmaster 11 March 2008

During 2007 the CIN ran and health and well being pilot programme incorporating nutritional and exercise components as well as emotional and mental ingredients designed to aid participants in developing and sustaining healthy, fit and happy lifestyles.
The programme which was expertly delivered by Refresh Your Life author Liz O’Halloran of Human Services involved VPS staff [...]

 

A simple but good idea !

Posted by webmaster 23 February 2008

The Organisational Development Team at Primary Industries came up with a simple yet practical idea last year to enhance the effect of their training and workshops.  
The idea which has been turned into practice is “Name Tents”. (You know those folded bits of cardboard that you write your name on to place in front of [...]

 

Why should anyone be led by you ?

Posted by webmaster 5 February 2008

 
Thanks to Laurel Sutton who has forwarded us this document on Authentic Leadership which springs from the Jan 08 edition of HR monthly. This succinct article incorporates extracts from “Why should anyone be led by you?” by Robert Goffee & Gareth Jones.
Authentic leadership is about not necessarily following recipes handed down, but by leading by being [...]

 

Evaluating a public policy organisation’s innovation capacity

Posted by webmaster 18 December 2007

Here is an interesting case study on the public sector’s capacity to innovate written by the VPS’s own Tony Vickers-Willis, Goran Roos of ICS (well known to many of us within the VPS) and Alan O’Connor of Swinburne’s Aust Graduate School of Entrepreneurship.
The purpose of the case study is to provide some thinking [...]

 

Human Services – Doing Business Better Strategy

Posted by webmaster 13 August 2007

 
The Department of Human Services (DHS) has commenced the implementation of a multi-year strategy aimed at doing business better.
Doing Business Better is a continuous improvement process based on the principles of  Lean Thinking. It is a systematic approach to continuously improve the value we deliver to our clients by eliminating waste within the system, both at [...]

 

Case Studies

Posted by webmaster 12 July 2007

We have now created a new archive category (see column at right Case Studies) for the purpose of collecting case studies on improvement initiatives and programmes within the public sector.
The purpose is to start to a repository of best practice that can be referred to for examples, learning, ideas or even replication as departments seek to research, develop and implement [...]

 

CIN Health & Well Being Pilot Results

Posted by webmaster 15 January 2007

Between Sept and Nov of last year, 30 VPS staff participated in a pilot Health and Well Being programme. The pilot was based around the application of the seven pillars of health which are routinely applied by the world’s longest living cultures. These are:
Air, fresh clean as as much as possible.
Water, clean, filtered a minimum [...]