Skills and Competencies Archives - Observatory of Public Sector Innovation https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/tag/skills-and-competencies/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:57:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 One Big Thing: A UK innovation initiative to upskill, change culture and experiment https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/one-big-thing-a-uk-innovation-initiative-to-upskill-change-culture-and-experiment/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/one-big-thing-a-uk-innovation-initiative-to-upskill-change-culture-and-experiment/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:56:43 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=44697 This blog post is part of a series on public sector innovation skills and applied capabilities, focusing on the conceptualisation of public sector innovation skills and applied capabilities, the practical pathways for development within the constraints of public administrations, and the connection between innovation skills and meaningful public sector transformation and impact on strategic goals and policy priorities.  Innovation is fundamental to our role as civil servants in the UK. Whether it’s delivering high-quality public...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/one-big-thing-a-uk-innovation-initiative-to-upskill-change-culture-and-experiment/feed/ 0 Toward a new approach to innovation skills and applied capabilities https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/toward-a-new-approach-to-innovation-skills-and-applied-capabilities/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/toward-a-new-approach-to-innovation-skills-and-applied-capabilities/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:43:37 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=44618 This blog post is part of a series on public sector innovation skills and applied capabilities, focusing on the conceptualisation of public sector innovation skills and applied capabilities, the practical pathways for development within the constraints of public administrations, and the connection between innovation skills and meaningful public sector transformation and impact on strategic goals and policy priorities. Public sector innovation is evolving rapidly, demanding a renewed approach to building skills and capabilities. The OECD’s...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/toward-a-new-approach-to-innovation-skills-and-applied-capabilities/feed/ 0 The “learning by doing” campus: France’s approach to innovation skill development https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/the-learning-by-doing-campus-frances-approach-to-innovation-skill-development/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/the-learning-by-doing-campus-frances-approach-to-innovation-skill-development/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:13:31 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=44526 This blog post is part of a series on public sector innovation skills and applied capabilities, focusing on the conceptualisation of public sector innovation skills and applied capabilities, the practical pathways for development within the constraints of public administrations, and the connection between innovation skills and meaningful public sector transformation and impact on strategic goals and policy priorities. These are longstanding questions for the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation and ones that remain central...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/the-learning-by-doing-campus-frances-approach-to-innovation-skill-development/feed/ 0 The Devious Dozen: 12 fallacies behind innovation lab “failures” https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/12-fallacies-innovation-labs/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/12-fallacies-innovation-labs/#respond Mon, 13 May 2024 15:03:34 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=42857 Times are tough. Governments across the globe need to find ways to keep up with ever-faster changing times, move beyond the constraints of traditional approaches, and leverage innovation to improve public policies and services. One way many governments have sought to advance innovation was by establishing public sector innovation labs over the past 20 years or so. In our first post we outlined the main purposes and learnings of public innovation labs. In this post,...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/12-fallacies-innovation-labs/feed/ 0 Towards a Futures Guidebook: A customisable curriculum for anticipatory governance https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/towards-an-anticipatory-guidebook/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:16:43 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=42664 The need for strategic foresight and anticipatory governance cannot be overstated. Governments worldwide are grappling with the challenge of preparing for future uncertainties while ensuring their policies and strategies are resilient and adaptive. The OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) is working to develop a curriculum and guidebook to bolster anticipatory governance capabilities based on our ongoing learnings from project LIMinal, with the governments of Lithuania, Italy, and Malta. Our team extensively reviewed examples...

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]]> Innovation Portfolio Management in the Public, Non-profit Sector https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-management-public-non-profit-sector/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-management-public-non-profit-sector/#respond Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:33:42 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=38145 A matter of methods, mindsets, and mechanisms. Why innovation portfolio management? Innovation Portfolio Management has long been used by the private sector to improve returns on investments. The potential of using the same approach to improve social returns is huge. A growing number of OECD Member countries and organisations in the international development sector are exploring innovation portfolio management. Follow, for example, the exciting work of OECD-OPSI, OECD INDEF, CGIAR, UNDP, UNICEF and others. Based...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-portfolio-management-public-non-profit-sector/feed/ 0 Designing a Public Sector Innovation Master Course https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/public-sector-innovation-master-course/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:15:24 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=35560 Public sector innovation is on the rise, in classrooms and outside. As a researcher, lecturer and ex- practitioner of public sector innovation, I was pleased to deliver an executive course on Innovation and Transformation in Government as part of Brazil`s National School of Public Administration (ENAP) Masters in Public Policy. In this blog, I will reflect my experience on the course design and delivery as well as on how OECD and OPSI tools have helped...

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]]> Anticipatory Innovation: Get started with the right tools https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/anticipatory-innovation-tools/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:36:49 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=35258 Decision-makers and experts frequently express an unmet need for resources to help them better perceive, make sense of, and act upon future changes as they are emerging in the present. But, how do we get started with creating something new that responds to the future as it’s shaping up around us? That process of generating novel initiatives that take the future into account is what we mean by “anticipatory innovation”. To make the journey easier,...

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]]> Flashforward https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/flashforward/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/flashforward/#respond Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:27:38 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=26902 What if our minds could move through time as easily as our bodies can move through space? In the movie Arrival (minor spoiler alert!), linguistics professor Dr Louise Banks learns an extraterrestrial language that expresses ideas in a timeless and nonlinear way. Through some science-fiction magic grounded in a grain of truth, Banks gains the ability to perceive time itself differently, and experiences flashes of future moments of great personal and political significance. As her mastery of the language increases, these flashforward moments become...

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]]> https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/flashforward/feed/ 0 OPSI seeks cases and examples of innovation management https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-management-examples/ https://oecd-opsi.org/blog/innovation-management-examples/#respond Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:34:33 +0000 https://oecd-opsi.org/?p=21320 Do you know about real-world cases and examples of innovation management? OPSI would like to hear from you. We are starting work with Vinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency to explore what good innovation management looks like in practice. We will take a systematic approach to understanding the role, nature, barriers, and enablers of innovation in an organisation. This means considering innovation activities within a wider context of (e.g., leadership, culture, processes, capabilities) rather than as one-off...

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