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LDC Fellowship 2015 Leadership for public sector innovation 1

About LDC Fellowships (www.ldc.govt.nz) The Leadership Development Centre (LDC) works in partnership with chief executives and the State Services Commissioner to deliver and advise leadership development across the public sector. LDC is co-owned and governed by public sector chief executives, with the State Services Commissioner as the Board Chair. LDC Fellowships are research or study awards for senior leaders, to develop their own leadership and contribute performance improvements to their agency and the wider public sector. In pursuit of public sector performance improvement, Fellows share their learning with colleagues across the public sector through a range of means including blogs, interactive workshops and papers. About us Sally Washington is Programme Manager of the Policy Project in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The project is designed to improve the quality and performance of policy advice across government. She has a long-standing interest in innovation and has published papers on the public sector innovations that followed the Canterbury earthquakes in NZ, and on innovation capability. She has worked in NZ and internationally (at OECD and UN/FAO) on a range of public policy issues (gender equality, government ethics, fisheries governance, policy systems and public management reform). Lis Cowey is a New Zealand Treasury Principal Advisor on Strategy, Change and Performance. Her role is to work with the Executive Leadership Team and managers to foster improvement and innovation in pursuit of the Treasury’s purpose, to help achieve higher living standards for all New Zealanders. She has worked in public service strategy and reform in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, as a public servant and as a consultant, She recently led establishment of a new human-centred design-focused policy team within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, and has led advice on public sector functional leadership, and regulatory reform. 3

Fellowship objectives and method Learn about leadership for innovation through: • Observing practical examples of innovation practice and understanding the various innovation methods involved • Discussing leadership for innovation with both those leading and those experiencing innovation projects • Understanding how innovation projects feed into public policy design and delivery (the innovation infrastructure) Research methods: • Formal study • Embedded experiences • Ethnographic research and participant interviews Fellowship programme Darden Business New York London OECD Embedded experiences school Innovation infrastructure International comparisons 27 April–1 May 5 –12 May Formal study 13–15 May 21–24 April See the real world See how the various Test our thinking against application of innovation and innovation capabilities and international evidence of design methods, leadership functions feed into policy Course on ‘Design thinking for innovation capability and of innovation projects and and service design and Innovative Business Problem exemplars. supporting design functions. delivery. Solving’

Lines of inquiry Application and impact of methods How are others applying innovation methods at the system level to policy and implementation design practice, and how can this improve the quality of both? What drives success? What in practice are the critical success factors for enabling innovation while retaining stability in the policy- and-operational system? What does successful leadership look and feel like – from perspective of the leader and the ‘led’? What sort of leadership is required for system-level innovation, what does it look like in day-to-day practice, and what is the 'state of the art' for cultivating this sort of leadership? Where do innovation leadership capabilities thrive best? Where are innovation leadership capabilities best placed in the system to lead across boundaries? (e.g. embedded? Clustered? Outside?)

Programme Charlottesville, Virginia http://www.darden.virginia.edu/ Executive course: Design thinking for Innovative Business Problem Solving New York Discussion with 2 http://thegovlab.org founders of the http://izonenyc.org Department of Education innovation http://www.nyc.gov/ceo unit (i-zone). Currently http://publicpolicylab.org undergoing London restructuring http://www.undp.org/innovation http://www.innovationunit.org http://www.behaviouralinsights.co.uk http://www.gov.uk/government/organisation s/civil-service-policy-profession http://www.openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/ http://whatworksgrowth.org www.eif.org.uk http://www.nesta.org.uk/ http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk Paris http://www.oecd.org/gov/public-innovation 6

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