Implementing Innovation in Government
<This blog post was originally published on Powertek Corporation’s website:
http://www.powertekcorporation.com/index.php/blog-article,
and is republished here with their permission>
The issue of achieving innovation in Government is a pretty hot topic right now. In this blog entry, I talk about how well the Government is doing in being more innovative; explore some of the reasons why they have trouble doing so; and look at one agency that is doing significant innovative work with mobile technology to see what lessons we can learn from them. The current administration has done a good job of emphasizing the importance of innovation. Some examples of their action steps include:
- Placing greater emphasis on the Presidential Fellows as a source of innovation,http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows
- Creating an Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies within GSA,http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/25729
- Having the Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council create an innovation committee as one of its three core areas of focus to look at cutting-edge technology, https://cio.gov/federal-cio-council-reorganizes/