The Top 10 Challenges Faced in Public Sector Innovation Today: Lessons from the OECD OPSI

The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation at the OECD has for many years been promoting rethinking in how public institutions operate both nationally and locally. Their vast bank of experience has been used world-wide. This session draws on all these lessons and explores the top 10 challenges public sector organisations face in public sector innovation today. These include ongoing institutionalization of public innovation and the new working methods that are evolving to embed innovative thinking and action in public sector organizations. How to incorporate approaches such as missions to tackle audacious challenges as well as how foresight and anticipatory methods can help drive change in everyday practices in the public sector? Increasingly the power of data and technology and its cascading effects can be transformative as can a crisis like Covid-19. Several difficulties remain, such as embedding and scaling up innovation as well as measuring and evaluating its effectiveness. Crucially large knowledge gaps remain on the ground which highlights the role of imaginative forms of training, coaching and mentoring.

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The Creative Bureaucracy Festival is the largest festival in the world that brings together innovators in the public sector across all sectors and levels. It has been held in Berlin every year since 2018 and has since inspired partner events around the world. In 2020 and 2021, the event with 400 speakers and 150 sessions was purely digital, gathering up to 18,000 minds and ideas over a week. Central to each day was the Highlight Hour, where festival president Charles Landry and television journalist Astrid Frohloff presented the day's highlights.