I've been slow writing up the results of the Global Survey on Creativity in Government but I've summarised the key findings below. These were shared at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, 2020. The total number of people who completed the survey was 355 - the results below are based on 329 responses across 33 countries that … Continue reading Global Survey of Creativity in Government, 2020 – update
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The Creative Bureaucracy Festival will be from 28th September - 2 October 2020. It will be entirely on-line and it is free - so check it out - it will be amazing and surprising. As part of my contribution I'm conducting a global survey on creativity and government employees. It takes about 15 minutes to … Continue reading Global Survey on Creativity in Government
This article was originally published in a special supplement of Tagesspiegel, a daily newspaper in Berlin, to coincide with the first Creative Bureaucracy Festival in 2018. It was published in German. I think it's still relevant so here it is, slightly updated and amended to acknowledge the passage of time. Working in government should be … Continue reading Creative Bureaucracy – unleashing the creative potential of bureaucrats
Like many around the world, my local high street is apparently in trouble. A pub has just closed. A well-known café has gone out of business. There are vacant shops. We know retail is under threat. My high street needs a burst of community spirit and creativity to make us care again about our local … Continue reading The future of the high street
When Amazon announced that it was inviting cities to bid for its second headquarters (HQ2) in the US it released criteria to guide city bids. Amazon’s criteria included being a city/metro area of more than 1 million people, with a stable business environment, attractive to technical talent, excellent universities, near an international airport, with direct … Continue reading What can ‘secondary cities’ learn from the Amazon ‘beauty contest’?
When you mention the term ‘creative bureaucracy’ people laugh and say ‘isn’t that an oxymoron?’. But Sebastian Turner, publisher of Tagesspiegel, Berlin’s leading daily paper, found the term ‘creative bureaucracy’ inspiring when he first heard it from Charles Landry. It crystallised something he’d been thinking about. Why did his paper ‘listen’ to everyone except government … Continue reading The Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Berlin, 2018
In the film ‘You’ve Got Mail’, Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) runs a children’s bookshop in Manhattan. Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) opens his Fox Books superstore just around the corner. It’s the mid 1990’s and the internet is fresh. The characters meet in an on-line chat room and fall in love, whilst unknowingly battling each … Continue reading Apple Stores and Amazon Books- is ‘on-line’ moving to the city?
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