With the budget crunch confronting nearly every agency, federal employees are once again being asked to do more with less. Leaders offer continuous improvement and innovation as the answer, but where do you start? How do you generate good ideas? How do you take those good ideas all the way to implementation? Join us for a moderated, interactive panel discussion among leaders building their agencies’ innovation agendas.

1. Innovation in Government

2. Partnership for Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service works to revitalize our
federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and
by transforming the way government works.
 Inspire and Hire Mission-Critical Talent
 Develop Leaders
 Engage Employees
 Modernize Management Systems
 Building Networks

3. Center for Government Leadership
Preparing federal leaders to solve national challenges by
driving innovation, inspiring employees and
delivering results
Excellence in
Annenberg
Government Leading Custom
Leadership
Fellows EDGE Programs
Seminars
Program
Alumni Network

4. Key Questions
 What is innovation?
 What are the essential elements to innovation in
government?
 What does innovation look like in government?
 How do I use innovation to solve my problems?

5. What does innovation mean to you?

6. What does innovation mean to you?

7. What does innovation mean to you?

8. The Study of Innovation

9. Cases of Government Innovation

10. Innovation

11. Innovation

12. Essential Elements

13. Defining Innovation in Government

14. Essential Elements for Innovation
Process
Leaders & Tools &
People Methods

15. Service to America Medals
Celebrating excellence in our federal civil service

16. Nine Attributes of Innovation Leaders

17. Case Example: Admiral Thad Allen

18. Case Example: Al League

19. Case Example: Nicole Nelson-Jean

20. Panel: The Innovators
 Matt Collier
• Senior Advisor to the Director,
Office of Personnel Management
 Jonah Czerwinski
• Director, VA Innovation Initiative,
Department of Veterans Affairs
 Robert Page
• Organizational Development Specialist,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

21. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Innovation Drivers at CMS
• Affordable Care Act
• CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
• to test innovative payment and delivery models
• HHSinnovates Program
• CMS Improvement Program
• CMS Idea Factory

22. innovations.cms.gov

24. Discuss a specific
challenge and potential
innovative solutions.

25. Stump The Innovators
 Pose your challenge / solution to the innovators
• Matt Collier, Office of Personnel Management
• Jonah Czerwinski, Department of Veterans Affairs
• Robert Page, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services

26. Resources

27. Resources – Articles/Blogs/Web sites
 Harvard Business Review (http://m.hbr.org)
 NY Times Corner Office
(http://projects.nytimes.com/corner-office)
 Washington Post Federal Coach
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ask-the-
fedcoach)
 Service to America Medals (Sammies)
(http: //servicetoamericamedals.org)

28. Resources – TED Talks
 Watch TED Talks (http:/www.ted.com)
• Tim Brown – Creativity & Play
• Seth Godin – Leading Tribes
• Steven Johnson –
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
• Alexis Ohanian –
How to Make a Splash in Social Media
• Derek Sivers – Starting a Movement

29. Ideas for Action – Books
 The Art of Innovation
Tom Kelley
 Little Bets
Peter Sims
 Made to Stick and Switch
Chip & Dan Heath
 Leading Outside the Lines
Jon Katzenbach & Zia Khan

30. ourpublicservice.org