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1. Background 4
2. Developing 6
an open
innovation event
3. Learning lessons 16
from the events
4. Prototypes
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developed at the
events
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Introduction
“Do you have ideas on how you can improve
your local area using the web or other
technologies?
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1. Background
Public sector organisations face growing
pressures to deliver bigger and better services
with far less money. For organisations, whether
they’re local authorities, universities or innovation
centres - the changes needed to make this
happen do not necessarily require more funding,
but tapping into creative ways of thinking and
delivering our services.
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Get people together to develop
innovations
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2. Developing an open
innovation event
You may want to organise a Transformed by You
event if you are keen to better connect
communities and individuals, especially finding
ways of joining up people with the skills and time
– the innovators and social entrepreneurs – with
the people with the influence and resource to
make innovation happen. Here are a few steps
that can help you develop such an event:
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1. Develop a model that works for you
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o Put forward the top 10 on the day of the
event and enable everyone to choose
which challenge they want to work on.
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Mental Health Launchpad, UNLtd,
Crucible, etc)
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o Encourage the participants to show you
how their proposed service would work
and what it would look like, whether that’s
through a presentation, screenshots or
other techniques they want to use to
showcase it.
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they have assigned a lead organiser on
behalf of their organisation and someone
from the venue as a lead.
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o Invite “critical friends” to drop in and
out of groups and provide advice to your
participants on how the ideas could work
in a public service environment. Invite
helpers too who can provide general
support on the day.
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8. Schedule the day
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humbling.
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can take away and even take forward
together.
…develop prototypes on your ideas …that you can showcase at the end of the day
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3. Lessons Learnt
We used facilitated workshops to generate
innovative and creative ideas among informal
groups, although our approach was slightly
different at both events in order to enable us to
compare the models.
Benefits
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o Inspirational – has acted as a catalyst for
further work and engagement
o Strong involvement1 of the participants
prior to the event in generating and voting
on ideas to be tackled on the day
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Issues
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http://transformedbyyou.uservoice.com/forums/40939-general
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http://transformedbyyou.ning
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o The amount of resource needed to
support a productive event was not
insignificant
o Preplanning is essential – despite the
relaxed nature of the events a lot of
‘behind the scenes’ work was required
o Need a lot of space to encourage
creativity and networking
2. Engaging participants
3. Developing ideas
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4. Prototypes developed at
Transformed by You
Bin Master
o Develop a fridge magnet
using GPS to get real time
information on recycling
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Destination Opportunity
o Put entertainers on buses
to connect older people on
community activities
On the move
o Use your mobile to take a
photo of a:
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Time Well Spent
o An online tool offering a points
based rewards system for
volunteering
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Let’s Get Digi
o Use Bluetooth chip
wristband to sign up and
volunteer for festivals
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