{"id":6150,"date":"2019-10-25T09:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T06:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"how-to-drive-innovation-in-public-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/25\/how-to-drive-innovation-in-public-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Drive Innovation In Public Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Scott\nBellows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nsitting around a conference table with colleagues pondering the most innovative\norganisations in the world, ideas conjured up would likely include Google,\nApple, Safaricom, Facebook, Tesla, Amazon, Alibaba, etc. What do all these\nfirms have in common? They all represent for-profit companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google\u2019s\nsimplified unique search innovation propelled to global dominance. Apple\u2019s\ntouchscreen concept revolutionized phone handsets. Safaricom\u2019s M-Pesa and\nM-Shwari changed how the world saw financial payments technology. Tesla\nlaunched the electronic car competition craze among automobile makers. Amazon\ndisrupted retail distribution chains. Alibaba took ecommerce to multi-industry\ndominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many\nresearchers highlight that the profit motive and lower bureaucracy in such\norganisations makes them more responsive to creativity and innovation than\nnon-profit, NGO, parastatal, and government entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\npopulaces around the globe demand more from their governments. Demands include\ntransparency, controlling inflation, corruption crackdowns, political\nrepresentation, and better more innovative government services in the digital\nage, among others, with citizens in many countries from Lebanon to Chile to\nHong Kong to Catalonia to Ecuador protesting openly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\none can see in places like Estonia with nearly all government services\naccessible online and free public transportation or the Dutch government\u2019s\nmanagement of Schiphol Airport widely seen as innovative, that at times\ngovernments can lead in innovation\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/lifestyle\/society\/How-to-drive-innovation-in-public-organisations-\/3405664-5323808-4n30hp\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Bellows In sitting around a conference table with colleagues pondering the most innovative organisations in the world, ideas conjured up would likely include Google, Apple, Safaricom, Facebook, Tesla,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}