Only solution is working smarter! Otherwise – les services or services providing less quality. We don’t want that
We need creative solutions.. New way of creating more public value,. This Is a problem we are not going to solve top down.. There is no magic answer.. No technolgoy which can solve this problem, no legislation will change this
Is a platform for those professionals and managers that seek for new ways to bring social innovation (in the form of smart solutions to wicked problems) to their organizations - developing a band of innovatorsIt provides them with online and offline activities/ services to share questions, knowledge and information; instruments to learn to a) come up with practical solutions and b) improve their innovation skills themselves at the same time (so-called Do-tanks); methods and coaching to successfully implement solutions within their organizations;Is meant to involve both professionals and their managers
This is how innovation happens in the public sector.. Not only from above, by legislation, by procedures form the top
An infrastructure to stimulate Social Innovation Like a school for public civil servants where they meet, form a community- you can not be change agent by yourself A school where you learn by doing.. By really taking initiatives and trying to do things. Do-tanks: programs in which either teams of professionals or teams of managers and their ‘do-tank coaches’ start working on solving a ‘wicked problem’, partly based on the process of the ‘youth foundation cycle’. But also, an instrument for learning methods and improving innovation skills. Action-research: continuous evaluation of all activities and the process itself in order to keep on improving the effectiveness of the network Support Committee: consisting of several ‘hotshots’ from both within and outside government: jury of the annual ‘do-tank award’, lobby-movement, strategic advise. Grand Café: presenting and collectively evaluating annual results and sharing plans for the futureNetwork of acquaintances: Partner organisations and fellow ‘believers’ of the Slimmernetwerk. Aimed at cooperation and coherence with other initiatives and the dissemination of good practices.
Website: www.slimmernetwerk.nl: will be developed as an online hub consisting of an infoportal, knowledgeportal, Toolbox, an agenda and several interactive elements like blogging and tweeting
LinkedIn group: for discussing existing problem statements within government agencies; to clarify and exchange problem statements and ideas Now 2000 members.. growing
Cafés: informal meetings for face-to-face discussions, lectures and exploring the forming of do-tank teams Every six weeks- hosted in an organisation
Do-tanks: programs in which either teams of professionals or teams of managers and their ‘do-tank coaches’ start working on solving a ‘wicked problem’, partly based on the process of the ‘SI cycle’ So they analyse the problem, develop a solution, prototype it and learn an reflect on it.. But also, an instrument for learning methods and improving innovation skills. Action-research: continuous evaluation of all activities and the process itself in order to keep on improving the effectiveness of the network On do tank on youth care, on keeping young people in the public sector, about local governments interacting with entrepererns, multiroblem families, The do this in a cocreative way- with involving the users...
Select the social challenge Form team Support SI cylcle Solution adopted by the hosting organisation
Place where practice and policy meet and succesvol innovations can be scaled up and also the way of working
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