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Strategic Leadership For Innovation in The Public Sector

This document outlines an executive education program on strategic leadership for innovation in the public sector hosted by the Government Innovation Unit in Bangladesh. The program will take place from May 19th-21st in Dhaka and discuss challenges of adopting innovations, analyzing stakeholder environments, and replicating innovations. It identifies five mechanisms that can impede successful transfer of innovations between contexts, including poor understanding of an innovation's core idea versus application and poor recognition of differences in contexts. The document also examines three key challenges for innovation management: innovation awareness, situation awareness, and organization awareness.

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Strategic Leadership For Innovation in The Public Sector

This document outlines an executive education program on strategic leadership for innovation in the public sector hosted by the Government Innovation Unit in Bangladesh. The program will take place from May 19th-21st in Dhaka and discuss challenges of adopting innovations, analyzing stakeholder environments, and replicating innovations. It identifies five mechanisms that can impede successful transfer of innovations between contexts, including poor understanding of an innovation's core idea versus application and poor recognition of differences in contexts. The document also examines three key challenges for innovation management: innovation awareness, situation awareness, and organization awareness.

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Strategic Leadership for Innovation in the Public Sector

An Executive Education Program for the Government Innovation Unit in Bangladesh

Dr. Linda Kaboolian (Harvard Kennedy School) Dr. Jorrit de Jong (Harvard Kennedy School)

Agenda Webinar May 5th


1. Opening Remarks GIU
2. The Challenges of Adopting Innovations

3. Analyzing The Stakeholders Environment


4. The Program in Dhaka May 19th 21st

The Case for Replicating Innovations


Common Sense: Why Reinvent the Wheel? Risk Reduction: Crash Tested Innovations

Best Value: Politicians/Citizens Demand Best Practice


Pleasing Donors / Superiors: Isomorphic Mimicry

5 Mechanisms that Impede Successful Transfer


Poor Understanding of Distinction Between Core Idea and Application (Behn 1997, 2008, Borins 1998, 2008)

Poor Recognition of Differences in Context (Patel 2006, United Nations 2006) Conflicting Stakeholders Interests Within/Around the Organization (Borins 1998, Moore 1995)
Legacy Problems with Organizational or Technical Infrastructure (Zuurmond 1994, Snellen 2007, De Jong 2008) Poor Knowledge Management (Yapp 2005, Hartley 2007, De Jong 2008)

3 Key Challenges for Innovation Management


1. Innovation Awareness: What is the Innovation All About?

2. Situation Awareness:

What is Different & Important About the Context?

3. Organization Awareness:

What is Going On In and Around the Organization?

Innovation Awareness
Full Agreement on What the Innovation is About

Little Use of Available Knowledge

Extensive Use of Available Knowledge

No Agreement on What the Innovation Is About

Source: Patel, 2005

Situation Awareness
Mindful of Context

Not Mindful of Risks

Mindful of Risks

Not Mindful of Context


Source: Patel, 2005

Organization Awareness
Full Awareness of Organizational Activity

Full Consideration of Stakeholders Interests No Consideration of Stakeholders Interests

No Awareness of Organizational Activity

Source: Yapp, 2005

Your Innovatio n

Stakeholder Analysis:

I. Identify Stakeholders
1. Who can stop you? 2. Whose help do you need? 3. Who will benefit?

Your Innovation

Other Ministries Elected Officials

Intl Funders

Workers

Your Innovation

Citizens

Bosses

Stakeholder Analysis:

I. Identify Stakeholders II. What are their interests in rank order?


How will your innovation: 1. Change their status quo? 2. Create anxiety for them?

Stakeholder Analysis:

I. Identify Stakeholders II. What are their interests in rank order? III How Much Power do They Have?

Stakeholder Analysis:
Stakeholder Interest in rank order Power

Other Ministries Elected Officials

Intl Funders

Workers

Your Innovation

Citizens

Bosses

Stakeholder Management:

Among Stakeholders: Look for mutual or dovetailing interests Look for alliances Within their interests Frame the issues Present evidence

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