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• Daily picture prompts to inspire your creativity
• Your daily dose of Dilbert to keep you sane and spark your imagination

• Insights to Excellence (i2e) have sent their April Newsletter
• All outstanding matters have been resolved in transferring VPSCIIN from VicPol/DOT to DPC. DPC has issued a request for quote to engage a new Coordinator for the VPSCIIN
• Slides from the DSE seminar last month on eMonitoring Evaluation Reporting and Innovation have now been uploaded
• Creativity resource centre
• Peter Chomley refers us to a site with a number of Social Media guidelines
• Ten Red Flags for Innovation
• Jumpstart storytelling - creating the conditions for collaboration
• What are you reading at the moment? Share it with us on our new recommended reading page!
• Lauchlan Mackinnon has updated his profile
• Foresight & crowd sourcing with CogEdge - an opportunity to contribute
• Les Tate shares the output of our Feb peer assist session
• Change management is no longer about cheese and mice; instead it's about riders and elephants!
• Communications and behaviour change necessary for innovation
• Selling innovation to your boss
• Innovation in the Public Sector: Enabling Better Performance

• The Corporate Executive Board are hosting a series of teleconferences over the next few weeks
• Inventium are running public training courses from 20 April
• SIRF Rt are hosting the Planning4Reliability National Forum in Melbourne on the 20th & 21st April
• DPC is hosting a seminar with Jonathan Greenblatt from the US on 21 April
• Seminar: President Obama and the Politics of Social Innovation on 21 April
• DSE Evaluation Seminar: Using Evaluation to shape the Victorian Investment Framework (VIF) on 22 April
• i2e Innovation Insight at Wrigley Gum and Confectionary in Scoresby on 22 April
• Lean Six Sigma 2010 in Sydney on 27-28 April on the theme of Deployment and Project Delivery
• There is a webinar on 28 April on Maximising Business Outcomes from Organisation Redesign Initiatives
• SSA Seminar: Ahead of the Game – Blueprint for reform or impossible dream? on 28 April
• Lean Enterprise Australia 6th Summit in Melbourne May 5-7
• i2e Innovation Insight at MtM - Auto Pty Ltd in South Oakley on 13 May
• Improving Performance Seminar 1, on Systems and Processes on 17-18 May at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne

• Marc Scharpenack, Project Manager in Department of Planning and Community Development
• Jann Milic, Evaluation Services Manager in Strategic Projects & Planning, DoJ
• Fiona Coyne, in the Business Improvement and Evaluation Branch, DSE
• Stephen Dodd, Communications and Education Manager in the Info Management & Library Services group, DoT

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