Crossing Silos to Promote Creativity

Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector by Jacob Torfing

When the average citizen considers the words innovation and government, dearth is another term that may come to mind. However, the average citizen might be misinformed. Despite its infamy for resisting change and creativity, public bureaucracy can generate new ideas that vastly improve public goods and services when it works across organizational silos and with private stakeholders. That's the premise of Collaborative Innov