• Turning Around Challenged Cities
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   November 2, 2010
• A new initiative looks to revive some of the nation's most challenged urban areas.
• Categories: Innovation by Design

• Superman Isn't Waiting in the Wings, But Social Innovators Are
• Posted By: J.B. Schramm , Dorothy Stoneman |   October 14, 2010
• Effective, dynamic social programs are more common than you might think. The challenge is not finding them, it is unleashing their latent superpowers.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
• 3 Comments

• Social Media in the Public Sector
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   October 4, 2010
• More and more government agencies are using social media tools to disseminate information, to share ideas and to communicate with the general public.
• Categories: Innovation by Design

• Social Innovation Snagged in Procurement Red Tape
• Posted By: Linda Gibbs , David Gragan |   September 29, 2010
• The hard truth is that our procurement processes work contrary to our original goal of efficient stewardship. Worse yet, they stifle creativity and innovation.
• Categories: Innovation by Design

• How Rules Demean Public Workers
• Posted By: Stephen Goldsmith |   September 22, 2010
• Public-sector unions and management mean well, but they often fail to reward those actually doing the work: front-line employees.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
• 18 Comments

• Today's Management Challenges Echo the Past
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   September 20, 2010
• A memo from a 1970 Office of Management and Budget official still resonates four decades later.
• Categories: Innovation by Design ,  Management and HR
• 3 Comments

• Can the Poor Help Themselves? Social Innovation in Boston
• Posted By: Judith Kurland |   September 3, 2010
• A program in Boston is encouraging the poor with incentives to record positive behaviors.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
• 1 Comments

• Tortoise or Hare? Slow Change can be Powerful, Here’s How to Begin
• Posted By: Tim Decker |   August 2, 2010
• What we think we can really teach social innovators, no matter what sector they work in, is how to sustain real change.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
• 3 Comments

• In Search of “What Works”
• Posted By: Robert Knisely |   July 29, 2010
• A popular book from the 1980s chronicled the strategies of successful companies. Government leaders today are on a similar quest for effectiveness.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
• 3 Comments

• Finding and Spreading Good Ideas
• Posted By: John O'Leary |   July 15, 2010
• Two new how-to guides for public innovators could prove very useful for public officials who need to find better, faster, cheaper ways of getting the job done.
• Categories: Innovation by Design
• 1 Comments