• A Few Hundred Innovative Ideas for Urban Governance
• Posted By: Ben Weinryb Grohsgal |   11 Days Ago
• The five winners of the Mayors Challenge are the cream of a bounteous crop.
• Categories: Innovation by Design

• The Very Busy Process of Delivering Innovation
• Posted By: Neil Kleiman |   12 Days Ago
• From brainstorming to "ideation" to troubleshooting, a city's Innovation Delivery Team has to cover a lot of ground--and do it quickly.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
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• Giving Public Workers the Tools for Efficiency
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   February 6, 2013
• Instead of outside experts, Denver's mayor is relying on city employees to find savings and deliver better services. The results so far are promising.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
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• What Darwin Can Teach Government
• Posted By: Emily Malina, Kara Shuler |   January 24, 2013
• 'Positive deviants' within a workforce can be the key to solving tough problems.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
• 6 Comments

• Kansas City, Google and the Leveraging of Public Value
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   December 19, 2012
• To Mayor Sly James, the first-in-the-nation Google Fiber project is about a lot more than blazing-fast broadband.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
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• The Skills an Innovation Team Really Needs
• Posted By: Neil Kleiman |   December 11, 2012
• The people staffing five cities' Innovation Delivery Teams aren't necessarily experts in the subjects the cities are working on. They are focused more on the "how" than on the "what."
• Categories: Innovation by Design
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• A Cheap Way for Governments to Tap Top Talent
• Posted By: Charles Chieppo |   December 5, 2012
• Fuse Corps is providing states, localities and community groups with entrepreneurial professionals to help them find the efficiencies that they need now more than ever.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
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• Leading the Way on 'Lean'
• Posted By: John M. Bernard |   November 13, 2012
• Washington state has made one of government's strongest commitments to this approach to government efficiency, one that's likely to survive a change in administrations.
• Categories: Innovation by Design

• Financing Efficiency in the Delivery of Social Services
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   October 17, 2012
• Traditional approaches reward activities, not results. Some innovative new approaches aim to turn that around through creative financing.
• Categories: Innovation by Design

• The Opening Door to Government Transformation
• Posted By: John M. Bernard |   October 15, 2012
• When the elections are over, a new crop of leaders will face the same old challenges. Let's hope they will approach those challenges with new thinking.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
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