Boosting Innovation With the Chief Exploration Officer
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Stealing each other’s good ideas should be a public value!
The Dutch ‘Urban Agenda’, an innovation program within the Dutch Ministry of the Interior, works with the brand-new role of Chief Exploration Officer. The job of the Chief Exploration Officer, or ‘CXO’, is to look for inspiration and opportunities in the outside world. The goal of this exploration is to boost the innovative work of the Urban Agenda – for instance by learning from the methods and practices of others, or by finding new potential partners to collaborate with.
In bureaucracy, the tendency is often to focus inwards: when faced with a challenge, we act from our own silos and invent our own wheels. At the Dutch Urban Agenda, we try to do this differently. Our main instrument is the so-called City Deals: experimental collaborations between various levels of government and social partners. City Deals serve to collaboratively create system change on a wide variety of urban and transition topics, such as ‘electric car sharing’ or ‘a healthy food environment’.
In this showcase we introduce the work of Chief Exploration Officer and explain why and how this role forms a vital addition to government programs that take innovation at heart, such as the Dutch Urban Agenda.
This session is part of the “Bureaucracy 2045: Thinking Afresh” block, which runs from 15:00-15:45 CET. The sessions in this block will appear in the following order:
· 50 Days, 50 Months, 50 Years: Rethinking Bureaucracy
· Caring Cities: Learning From the Caregivers Sustaining our Communities
· Twegatte Youth Health Project
· Boosting Innovation With the Chief Exploration Officer
· ImpactAI: Shaping AI-Assisted Bureaucracy
Suzanne Potjer
Chief Exploration Officer, Urban Agenda @ the Dutch Ministry of the Interior