How can organisations such as government, banks and universities innovate successfully, with the change and inherent risk this involves, when their very purpose seeks to provide stability and be resilient to disruption?
How can we, as leaders, adhere to the regulations and established approaches whilst being disruptive enough to make a positive impact?
Perhaps we can flip the thinking.
What if we secured buy-in by incentive not mandate? What if we re-imagined the use of existing assets (such as property in the case of SKYrooms)? What if we made the constraints themselves part of the solution?
An Assistant Director in the Cabinet Office, Rupert discusses how he has applied these approaches in flagship innovation programmes he founded and led at the heart of the UK government including SKYrooms, and Cabinet Office Policy School — run in partnership with 10 Downing Street.
12. 1. A safe place to do risky things.
Doing new things
vs.
Protecting reputation.
13. 2. Innovation flourishes in
an ecosystem.
Today’s interconnected issues don’t fit
into neat organisational structures.
It requires collaboration – but you
can’t mandate collaboration.
15. • Create an offer that drives demand sky-high
• Working across sectors provided new insights
• Diverse teams performed better
• Creative venue helped diverse teams perform
Lessons from CO Policy School
17. How can we …
create something
so compelling that people don’t
need to be told to work together.
They want to work together.
19. How can we …
create something somewhere
so compelling that people don’t
need to be told to work together.
They want to work together.
58. … apply judgement + integrity
between the lines
e. Stay within the red lines
59. Summary
• Desirability of the offer
Create an invitation too good to turn down
• Leadership
Navigating a new path requires
judgement and integrity.