Archive for April, 2009
And the winners are …
Posted by webmaster 30 April 2009
Many thanks to those who responded to our evaluation, your time and your effort is appreciated. The winners drawn today for the prizes are:
“Creativity & Innovation in a time of crisis” a seminar with Tony Buzan” Neil Robertson of DSE, Alan Kennedy of VicPol, Rebecca Tam of Human Services, Pauline Grant of DOJ, Pat Sheridan [...]
Melb University Key Thinkers Public Seminars
Posted by webmaster 29 April 2009Key Thinkers is a series of public lectures held by by Melbourne University each Thursday evening until the end of May.
At these sessions academics from the University, along with the occasional guests, will give an hour long talk on internationally well know thinkers whose work has inspired their own. This will be followed by 30 [...]
Last chance to claim prizes
Posted by webmaster 27 April 2009Wed April 29 will be the last opportunity to complete the CIN evaluation for 2009 and claim one of the many prizes on offer. These include places in workshops on Creativity and Masterclasses in Mind Mapping facilitated by Tony Buzan, training in de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats & the Direct Attention Thinking Tools and copies [...]
Mental Floss (128)
Posted by webmaster 26 April 2009
Well done to Sue Horton of VicPol who could identify 103 people. This week’s question is:
A bag contains one coin which is either copper or silver. A silver coin is placed in the bag and the contents are shaken up. Without looking, you remove one coin from the bag and it is silver. Now, what [...]
Concentration & High Performance with Gavin Freeman
Posted by webmaster 25 April 2009Today 180 CIN members met at the Victorian Arts Centre in a session hosted by Dept of Transport Dep Secretary Ray Van Kuyk, and featuring Gavin Freeman presenting on the topic of Concentration and High Performance.
In an hour long presentation Gavin, a sports psychologist and author of The Business Olympian, shared many stories and examples [...]
New Client Relationship Management Software installed
Posted by webmaster 24 April 2009The CIN has now incorporated new client relationship management software into the website.
This new software will be used to:
Record RSVP responses to CIN events
Track numbers attending
Automatically notify members of their rsvp status
Automatically remind those who RSVP of their commitment to attend, a specified no of days prior to each event
Generate a range of reports that [...]
Yes they can – and they’re doing it
Posted by webmaster 20 April 2009On April 20 a group of DSE Facilitators completed their final workshop before practically applying the parallel thinking techniques for their work based assessment to receive the Blue Hat Facilitator pin.
A substantial part of this second workshop involved the group sharing instances where they have already applied the techniques in the workplace and discussing different [...]
Brainstorming in the 21st Century
Posted by webmaster 20 April 2009
The Whole of Govt Improvement and Innovation Community of Practice met last week and Lauchlan MacKinnon of Planning & Community Development shared some of his substantial knowledge on the history and practical application of brainstorming.
In his presentation Lauchlan described the differences between what Brainstorming was when Alex Osborn invented it in the 1950s and how [...]
Can things really be done more effectively and informatively?
Posted by webmaster 20 April 2009
My gut says Yes (Red Hat – emotion)
At Sustainability & Environment we’re passionate about how different thinking processes can create different and improved outcomes. .
The CIN took a group of DSE staff through De Bono’s Six Thinking Hat methodology so that there are a team of people in DSE to facilitate meetings, innovation and workshops [...]
Mental Floss (127)
Posted by webmaster 20 April 2009Well done to John Simmons of ESTA who correctly responded with: 20 (Including all of the numbers between 90-99.) This week’s question is:
How many famous faces can you see and write down in the picture attached? people.pdf
The 1st CIN member that correctly identifies the most will receive a copy of Ed Bernacki’s I am an [...]
AFL Football Supporter Archetypes
Posted by webmaster 17 April 2009While thumbing through the Footy Record at half time during round 2 we discovered some interesting research that has recently come out of Victoria University involving the identification of AFL football supporter archetypes.
When describing football supporters we usually use sweeping generalisations such as one-eyed, die hard, fair weather or average fan. To get a greater [...]
Whole of Govt Privacy Blog !
Posted by webmaster 15 April 2009Here is an excellent initiative involving the the use of social software within the firewalls of government.
Privacy Now, a whole of government privacy blog has been launched by the Executive Services Privacy Team at the last interdepartmental privacy meeting of Privacy Managers.
Open to all VPS staff latest posts include discussions of cloud computing and Web [...]
Melbourne Cognitive Edge Accreditations
Posted by webmaster 14 April 2009Many network members have been asking when the next Cog Edge Accreditations will be happening here in Melbourne. We can now confirm that they will be going ahead on August 26, 27 & 28 at a venue to be advised.
All those interested in this accreditation process cab click here for more information and register their [...]
Innovation thoughts from Canada
Posted by webmaster 14 April 2009I just returned from Melbourne Australia and want to share some insights into public sector innovation. I did workshops for the innovation team at the Department of Sustainability and Environment. Its focus is fantastic – helping an organization of 2700 people to be more innovative on a day-to-day basis as well as improving the quality [...]