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Skip to search resultsFundamentals in Innovation: Finding and Framing Innovation Opportunities
This online self-paced course (2 of 3) frames innovation as an opportunity and presents helpful techniques for identifying and understanding the needs of partners and stakeholders. Participants will learn about the importance of finding opportunities, taking the time to understand stakeholder needs, and reflecting on how innovation applies to their work.
Fundamentals in Innovation: Getting Ready to Innovate
This online self-paced course (1 of 3) defines what innovation is, where it can occur and how it is practised. Participants will learn about the foundational notions of innovation, including how to incorporate innovation into routine work practices and how to pursue innovative ideas in the public service.
Inclusive by Design: Applying the GC Digital Standards and Gender-based Analysis Plus
This online self-paced course identifies the impact of personal and organizational biases on our decisions at work and explores how to apply the Government of Canada Digital Standards and Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) to help mitigate these biases.
Innovate on Demand episode 23: Inclusive Design
In this episode of the Innovate on Demand podcast, host Natalie Crandall speaks with Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, about the Centre's purpose, vision and mission of ensuring that emerging technologies and their associated practices are inclusive of everyone.
Innovate on Demand episode 2: Human-Centred Impact Evaluation
In this episode of the Innovate on Demand podcast, co-hosts Natalie Crandall and Valeria Sosa speak with Catherine Charbonneau and Jordana Globerman about how acknowledging failure can increase connectedness and bring about more innovative results.
Introduction to Agile in the Public Service
This online self-paced course introduces the concepts, tools, practices and behaviours that support an Agile culture in the modern workplace. Participants will review the principles that drive agility individually and within teams, in order to encourage and sustain an adaptive culture across the public service.
Introduction to Human-Centred Design
This online self-paced course introduces the principles of human-centred design and how to create policies, programs, services and tools that are feasible and reflect the needs of real people. Participants will gain a basic awareness of common design concepts and learn how to define and solve problems by researching, designing, prototyping, and testing directly with users.
Introduction to Product Management in the Public Service
This online self-paced course introduces the key concepts of product management and recommends best practices for creating products in a public service context. Participants will learn about product teams, including the different roles, responsibilities and skillsets of team members, as well as some of the tools available to assist them.
Learning from Failure
This online self-paced course describes the cycle of success when developing people and their talent, which includes failure and strategies for embracing it. Participants will explore key actions that foster an attitude of continuous learning and will discover the potential benefits of failure and other setbacks.
Panel Session on Adaptive Policies and What They Mean for Implementation
This video, recorded at the Policy Community Conference 2023, features panellists Jutta Treviranus, Roda Muse and Darren Swanson, with moderator Gail Mitchell, who discuss closing the gap between policy objectives and policy implementation.