On 10 December 2009, the Centre for Social Innovation hosted Christian Bason, Director of MindLab (Denmark) for a day of workshops and seminars with over 120 forward-thinking senior public and private sector managers. Themes emerging included:

• Innovation as a means to “get more of what we want” – the quadruple bottom line of productivity, service, results and democracy;
• Focus on citizens and users as the starting point for service transformation
• Outcome-focused collaboration – across agencies and sectors – as critical

Christian discussed MindLab’s work on the Nine to Noon programme and there was interesting coverage in the Dominion Post.

For a more detailed summary, including presentation downloads, click here.

Internationally, Denmark stands out as a leader in public sector innovation. One of its key vehicles is MindLab, an inter-Governmental unit for citizen-centred innovation. Owned by the Danish Ministries of Economic and Business Affairs, Taxation and Employment, MindLab facilitates innovation processes, including qualitative data collection and field work, design workshops, concept development, prototyping and evaluation. MindLab shares its learnings in workshops and seminars across the public sector in Denmark, the UK and throughout Europe. (www.mind-lab.dk/en)

The New Zealand Centre for Social Innovation is delighted to welcome Christian Bason, Director of MindLab, to New Zealand on Thursday 10 December 2009 for a day of workshops and seminars with leading thinkers and practitioners across the public and private sectors.

Events include:

• Exploring Public Sector Innovation: A Practical Introduction: We are holding a half-day morning workshop for public sector managers, exploring key innovation themes in theory and in practice. Read more
• Accelerating Public Sector Innovation: The MindLab Story: Christian will also join us for our latest CEO Leadership Forum bringing together 20 public and private sector leaders.

Christian will also present at a MoRST Futures Forum, and at other functions convened by our foundation partners.

For more information, please contact Samara Strachan

We are very grateful for the support of our event partners:

Ministry of Social Development