Tackling Policy Challenges Through Public Sector Innovation
This report discusses how steering innovation investment in public sector organisations through a portfolio approach can help governments respond to the multi-faceted challenges they face. Portfolio management is a well-known device in the financial sector, allowing for dynamic decision-making proce...
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Paris :
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
2022.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Notes
- Part I Addressing public policy challenges through public sector innovation
- 1 Connecting purpose with solutions - Introduction to the Public Sector Innovation Facet model
- Background
- A growing need for public sector innovation
- The objective of a model for public sector innovation
- Public Sector Innovation Facets: A conceptual model
- Dimensions of innovation
- Purpose of innovation
- References
- Notes
- 2 Working with innovation portfolios
- Innovation portfolio management
- Theoretical underpinnings of a portfolio approach
- Lessons from the private sector
- Functions of innovation portfolios
- Creating new knowledge and space for sense-making
- Mapping a holistic view of innovation
- Creating a diverse supply of innovation
- Measuring and evaluating innovation portfolios
- Ensuring efficient project co-ordination and portfolio stewardship
- Tools and methods
- Risk-balance and resource allocation
- Understanding current portfolio activities
- Managing complex systems
- Using portfolios to balance innovation
- Action points and takeaways
- References
- Notes
- 3 Innovation portfolios in policy making systems
- Steering public sector innovation systems
- How the innovation facets interact with systemic capacity to innovate
- How the innovation facets interact with policymaking systems
- References
- Notes
- 4 Towards a strategic, action-oriented innovation portfolio
- Part II Working with the public sector innovation facets: An in-depth analysis
- 5 Enhancement-oriented innovation
- General description
- The challenge
- The approach
- Research findings
- Incremental innovation and ambidexterity
- Digitalisation and e-government
- Productivity
- Distinguishing productivity from efficiency.
- Realising and measuring productivity gains
- Applications of enhancement-oriented innovation
- Process innovations
- Product and service innovations
- Structural innovations
- Main drivers in the public sector
- Reduction of resources and costs
- New Public Management
- Digitalisation, and new technologies and infrastructures
- Enabling factors
- Evaluation and auditing
- Performance measurement and management
- Innovation capacity-building and resource management
- Digital infrastructure and information-technology governance
- Funding and budget structures
- Tools and methods
- Lean and Six Sigma methodologies
- Project management and quality improvement methods
- Open innovation
- Behavioural insights
- Skills and capacities
- Employees
- Digital and ICT skills
- Learning capacities
- Leadership and management
- Policy and implementation challenges
- Diffusion of what works
- Over-specialisation
- Over-investment
- Open questions
- References
- 6 Adaptive innovation
- General description
- The challenge
- The approach
- Definitions in the literature
- Adaptation as adaptive capacity
- Adaptation as an innovation approach
- Adaptation as a governance framework
- Adaptive vs. agile governance
- Agile software development
- Agile governance
- Agile and adaptive reforms
- Main drivers in the public sector
- Environmental drivers
- Demands (political/citizen)
- Threats
- Collaboration
- Organisational drivers
- Resources
- Organisational culture
- Leadership
- Individual drivers
- Enabling factors
- Organisational structure
- Infrastructure
- Relationships and partnerships
- Space for experimentation
- Evaluation and learning
- Tools and methods
- Tools for collaboration
- User-centricity as a guiding principle
- Agile as a methodology
- Design Thinking
- Tools for anticipation.
- Skills and capacities
- Leadership
- Employees
- Policy and implementation challenges
- Balancing adaptive innovation and stability/resilience
- Adaptive innovation as a core practice
- Open questions
- Multifaceted approaches and research streams
- Drivers in the public sector
- Support structures
- Tools and methods
- References
- Notes
- 7 Mission-oriented innovation
- General description
- The challenge
- The approach
- Main drivers
- Enabling factors
- Institutional entrepreneurship and mission governance
- Funding missions
- Procurement
- Tools and methods
- New ways of working and knowing
- Portfolio approach to funding
- New approaches to appraisal and evaluation
- Skills and capabilities
- Policy and public service challenges
- Open questions
- Research questions
- Policy questions
- References
- Notes
- 8 Anticipatory innovation
- General description
- The challenge
- The approach
- Definitions in the literature
- Limitations of forecasting and prediction
- Strategic foresight and the discipline of anticipation
- Adaptation vs. anticipation
- Main drivers in the public sector
- Responding to novel societal and technological developments
- Decision-making and planning in conditions of unpredictable uncertainty
- Making sense of complex policy problems
- The cost of doing nothing in the face of rapid change
- Enabling factors
- Foresight ecosystems
- Governance using anticipatory innovation
- Working methods
- Tools and methods
- Forecasting and horizon scanning
- Signals
- Weak signals
- Web content analysis and text mining
- Delphi
- Real-time data monitoring and predictive analytics
- Thick data
- MCDA
- Visioning
- Running anticipatory innovation
- Framing
- Scenarios
- Megatrends
- Causal layered analysis
- Acting
- Stress-testing and wind-tunnelling
- Prototyping.
- Early-warning systems
- Judging success and failure in anticipatory innovation
- Skills and capacities
- Subject-matter expertise
- Imagination
- Appreciation of emergence and complexity
- Leadership and implementation
- Communication
- Policy and implementation challenges
- The impact gap
- When risk-avoidance becomes issue-avoidance
- The Collingridge Dilemma
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- Open questions
- Limitations of strategic foresight
- Measuring the value of anticipatory innovation
- Interactions with other disciplines
- Implementing anticipatory innovation prototyping
- References
- Notes
- Annex A. Research methodologies
- Research on enhancement-oriented innovation
- Year of Publication
- Language
- Publication status
- Availability
- Research on adaptive innovation
- Identification of sources
- Eligibility criteria
- Year of publication
- Field of study
- Language
- Publication status
- Availability
- Research on mission-oriented innovation
- Identification of sources
- Year of Publication
- Publication status
- Assumptions applied to coding
- Research on anticipatory innovation
- Language
- Publication status
- Availability
- Research on portfolios of innovation
- Year of Publication
- Language
- Publication status
- Availability
- References
- Annex B. Innovation Capacity Framework - Factors and variables.
