Archive for February, 2009
Innovation in the VPS, the upside, the downside & associated archetypes
Posted by webmaster 28 February 2009On 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 [...]
Collaborative technologies on display
Posted by webmaster 28 February 2009CIN members are invited to attend this session and learn about some of the latest collaborative tools and technologies to assist in building on workforce effectiveness, collaboration and organisational innovation.
Attendance at key sessions will enable new information on:
Enterprise Web 2.0
Messaging and collaboration
Software as a service & Cloud Computing
Unified Communications
Enterprise portals and process management
Invite AUS-DM.pdf
For more [...]
Transparency & Open Government
Posted by webmaster 27 February 2009
Attached is a memo to the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies from newly elected President of the United States of America, Barak Obama which has been drafted with great intent.
Tranparent & Open Govt
The essence of the directive is for Government in the USA to become more Transparent, Participatory and Collaborative. Excellent ideals that if [...]
Trampoline!
Posted by webmaster 26 February 2009Come and share what you find amazing! Bounce around cross-discipline concepts and thoughts that expand your thinking!
Borrowing from the concepts around BarCamps and other unconferences, Trampoline will be an informal day of sharing ideas in Melbourne, Australia.
The goal is to cover subjects that will be appealing across different disciplines. Technical or business-focused, environmental or social, [...]
Mental Floss (119)
Posted by webmaster 25 February 2009
Well done to Stephen Manley of Human Services who correctly responded with: She was telling the truth, she was in Panama where at one part of the isthmus this is possible to do. This week’s question is:
What is the best way to evade a crocodile if it is chasing you?
The 1st CIN member in with [...]
The Interoperability Challenge
Posted by webmaster 25 February 2009CIN members are invited to attend a one day conference on addressing the interoperability challenge for the Victorian Community Services Sector. This conference which will be chaired by Professor Alan fells of ANZSOG will focusing on the following objectives:
@ Bringing Government, the Community Sector and the research sector together to discuss the strategic issues of [...]
Unpacking issues with Mind Mapping
Posted by webmaster 24 February 2009Today 40 VPS staff participated in a Mind Mapping Basics workshop with Richard Yiap of Beyond Paradigms.
Throughout the session participants covered off the basics of how to construct a mind map and a range of potential workplace applications including:
Enhancing understanding of issues
Unpacking your thinking
Summarising
Improving clarity
Managing volumes of information
Improving creativity
Problem solving, and effective group techniques
Barriers to [...]
APSAC Conference
Posted by webmaster 24 February 2009The Australian Public Sector Anti-corruption Conference (APSACC) is a joint initiative of the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) in Queensland, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in New South Wales and the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) in Western Australia.
The conference will improve delegates’ ability to prevent, identify and manage corruption in the public sector [...]
Whole of Govt Innovation & Improvement Community move to Wiki platform
Posted by webmaster 20 February 2009On Feb 19, 40 members of the Whole of Govt Improvement & Innovation Community adopted an online wiki with which to share their knowledge and work together on a number of initiatives. This simple form of content management software is web based and allows members to access it from work, home or anywhere with web [...]
Mental Floss (118)
Posted by webmaster 18 February 2009Well done to Colette Corr of Justice who responded with: He was shopping in Vietnam and was handed change in coins. At the time however, all of the legal tender (dong) was in notes only. This week’s question is:
Debra came back from holidays with many anecdotes of her adventures. One include a story of how [...]
VPS Innovation Archetypes – An Invite
Posted by webmaster 16 February 2009Governments the world over are working in increasingly complex spaces and often in spaces where they have not been before. Old and tried solutions are often of no use in this complex domain, so as representatives of the State of Victoria we need to be prepared to challenge the status quo, seize new opportunities, and [...]
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 [...]
An invite to building a collaborative workplace using business narrative
Posted by webmaster 11 February 2009For 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 [...]
Mental Floss (117)
Posted by webmaster 11 February 2009Congratulations to Sue Williams of Sustainability & Environment who responded with: Giraffe is the odd one out, the others are all signs of the zodiac. Other answers were technically correct (well done) but the zodiac one was the one we were after. This week’s question is:
The tourist walked into the shop and purchased some traditional [...]