October 2020 - Observatory of Public Sector Innovation Observatory of Public Sector Innovation

22 October 2020

Convening intentional conversations on crisis implications

Convening intentional conversations on crisis implications The crisis of this year has required governments at all levels around the world to respond and adapt. The COVID-19 crisis is unique in the sense that, while…

Bruno Monteiro

19 October 2020

Steps towards a New Data Deal

Innovation Skills, Innovation Toolkit

Steps towards a New Data Deal: Prototyping an evidence-based innovation panel for the Portuguese Public Administration A rigorous, realistic, and actionable knowledge of current innovation practices is indispensable in order to meet the present challenges…

James Mohun

14 October 2020

Report Launch – OPSI Innovation Primer on Rules as Code

Emerging Tech, Rules as Code, Updates on the OPSI

Today, we are pleased to launch OPSI’s third innovation primer, Cracking the Code: Rulemaking for humans and machines. Exploring the exciting emergence of Rules as Code (RaC) in the public sector, we hope the primer…

Emerging technology Rules as code

A diamond shape made up of four smaller diamonds. The point of the diamond on the left points towards the words certainty and exploiting/incremental. The point of the diamond on the right points towards the words Uncertainty and exploring/radical. The point of the diamond at the top points to the words Directed and shaping/top-down. The point of the diamond at the bottom points to the words Undirected and responding/bottom-up. The four smaller diamonds are all labelled. the one on the left being 'Enhancement-oriented innovation', the one at the bottom 'Adaptive innovation', the one at the top 'Mission-oriented innovation', the one on the right 'Anticipatory innovation'. The four smaller diamond shapes are separate from each other by an X shape. In the words between each of the diamonds, are descriptions. Between Enhancment-oriented innovation and mission-oriented innovation there is 'sustaining change', between mission-oriented innovation and anticipatory innovation there is 'transformative change', between anticipatory innovation and adaptive innovation there is 'disruptive change', and between adaptive innovation and enhancement-oriented innovation there is optimising change.

Alex Roberts

13 October 2020

Zone of confusion: The need for a clear purpose for innovation projects

Innovation Facets

Have you ever felt pulled in different directions at once, such that you do not feel like you are really making headway? Or that when trying to do multiple things at once, you end up…

Kent Aitken

1 October 2020

Sensemaking possibilities #3: refining tools and testing them against futures of government

Government After Shock

The OPSI mission has three pillars: Uncovering emerging practice and identifying what’s next Turning the new into the normal Providing trusted advice In 2020, the work that supports this mission shifted sharply; suddenly, there was…

Jamie Berryhill

1 October 2020

Seeking candidates for projects on digital government innovation (due 9 October)

Updates on the OPSI

OPSI is partnering up with our sister team, the Digital Government and Data Unit, for a series of projects involving researching and evaluating government efforts to promote the digital transformation of public policies and services,…