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VPSCIIN Event – June 2

In conjunction with The Hargraves Institute, VPSCIIN is holding a forum on Communicating with Creativity. The session is being run by Performance of a Lifetime, a New York based training and consulting firm that specialises in theatre-based professional education.  Open to all VPSCIIN members,  the session is being held on Wednesday 2 June 2010, from 2.30 to [...]

An invite to “Alternative Perspectives on Health & Learning” with Don Tolman

     
The CIN is very pleased to announce the return of Don Tolman to the CIN stage. Since Don’s last appearance with the CIN we have had constantly been asked the question “When are we getting Don back?”
Don is best described as a revolutionary in the fields of self care and self education. He has dedicated [...]

An invite to “Creativity in Complexity & Uncertainty”

What do our organisations have in common with dinosaurs? They’re both large, ungainly, yet highly efficient in their niche, and both are very responsive to sudden changes in their environme … hang on a minute
Mike Carroll, AFI Award-winning film maker of science and natural history documentaries, including the Emmy awarded Discovery Channel series Prehistoric Worlds, [...]

An invite to “To Blog or Not to Blog?”

As a part of the Victoria Online Seminar Series, you (or your nominee) is invited to attend a special seminar on the theme of:
To Blog or Not to Blog?
This seminar will focus on developments and insights relating to e-enabled citizen engagement. It will explore aspects of the landscapes of blogs, wikis and other e-forum activities [...]

An invite to building a collaborative workplace using business narrative

For years software vendors and consulting firms have been developing SAP software components for NSW government agencies and on-selling the same software to numerous other NSW government agencies. These practices are only possible in an environment where the government agencies do not collaborate. In 2008 these agencies got together to share how they were using [...]

How to manage Govt performance: The important role of time

In this seminar, Professor Tobim Im will explain how and why government reforms succeed or fail in certain conditions and how they evolve over a period of time. It is argued that in order to improve government performance, it is very important to explore the time variable.
All kinds of reforms usually target the future, even [...]

Joined up Government(s)

The CIN is currently working with Queensland Government’s Business Improvement in Government (BIIG) Network to build an online resource of business improvement frameworks, methodologies and tools for Government. This resource will be a natural follow on from the CIN’s own Continuous Improvement – A hands on guide for the VPS.
The new online resource is now [...]