Angela Hanson, Author at Observatory of Public Sector Innovation Observatory of Public Sector Innovation

9 June 2021

Stewarding Innovation Portfolios for Collective System Change: Examples from Practice

How to innovate, Innovation Facets, Mission-Oriented Innovation, Systems Thinking, Updates on OPSI

Innovation portfolio management is becoming a core practice for intentional and proactive public sector innovation units to prepare governments to address a diversity of current and future challenges. The practice: Helps build clarity of…

Angela Hanson

6 April 2021

Anticipatory innovation tools and methods: Closing the impact gap

Anticipatory Innovation, H2020

Tools and methods for innovation, anticipation, and strategic foresight are a perennially popular topic and several hundred members of the global public sector anticipatory innovation tools community gathered to take stock of promise and pitfalls…

Angela Hanson

27 January 2021

Remixing the Mission Design Canvas

Innovation Toolkit, Mission-Oriented Innovation, Updates on OPSI

Missions offer a formalised path to creating public value but urgently need more experimental and iterative approaches to make missions a reality in the messy world of public policy. Mission-oriented innovation needs not only an ambitious clarity of purpose but…

Angela Hanson

14 January 2021

New Year’s Anticipatory Innovations

Anticipatory Innovation, Innovation Skills, Updates on OPSI

New Year’s resolutions are so frequently unfulfilled that it has become a cliché to cynically write them off as futile. We create them in the hopes of creating innovation in our lives, but often they…

anticipatory innovation anticipatory innovation governance strategic foresight

Angela Hanson

11 January 2021

OPSI Toolkit Navigator becomes more social

Innovation Toolkit, Updates on OPSI

Since the launch of the Toolkit Navigator in November 2018, we have maintained it as a live and continuously growing resource and built up an active community of fellow tool and method experts and…

Meta-toolkit Methods Tool Toolkit

Angela Hanson

23 June 2020

Anticipatory Innovation Governance in Gipuzkoa

H2020, Innovation Facets, Updates on OPSI

Future-oriented change in an environment of radical democracy Over the past few months, we have been reminded that despite scenario planning and strategic foresight, it’s easy to be caught off guard off guard and unprepared in the face…