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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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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
innovations
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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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Develop a model that works for you
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o Reach out to local entrepreneurs,
innovators, geeks and community
organisers and others whose
experiences, expertise and enthusiasm
would really benefit your event.
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o Bring in creative people – especially
young talent - to make the day exciting
and productive
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o So you don't need to worry about
having your ideas stolen and so you
can take your prototypes forward as a
group if you chose to do so, enable your
users to license their ideas under
Creative Commons 3.0.
Develop prototypesi
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o Attract people from your organisation
to be mentors or “critical friends” to the
participants in their groups, taking notes
or live blogging the sessions, as well as
providing advice on any issues they may
be able to help with, such as how would
their prototype work in the council and
how could it be taken forward
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o Provide a venue which can enable
people to meet and network and which
has breakout spaces where people can
get into groups and develop their ideas.
Make sure it also has wifi internet
connection.
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Schedule the day
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o Nominate each facilitator and helper to
a particular challenge. Invite the
participants to select a group and go with
the facilitator to a breakout space.
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How does it wo
Get people with different skills together… …to brainstorm
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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
Engaging participants
Developing ideas
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Prototypes developed at
Transformed by You
Call of Du
o Report an issue on your
smart phone and do
somethingabout it
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