In order to improve The Innovation Journal, we are
conducting a consultation process with interested individuals. Some of the responses
already received are listed below. If you would like to contribute, please read and reply
to our questionnaire (below). Don't forget the blank lines before and after the
article text.
An Invitation to Participate
From: Editor, Innovation Journal
To: You
Re: Innovation Journal Consultation
I want to invite you to participate in the discussion about the
future of The Innovation Journal.
The process for the conversations will be as follows:
- I prepare the questions (see below)
- each participant emails me in response, indicating the number and
nature of the question to which he/she is responding
- I post edited comments on The Innovation Journal (except of course
individual's names and personal information).
I suggest that the consultation will be limited to the topic of how
to improve The Innovation Journal, rather than any discussion of the possibility of
expanding its area of coverage beyond innovation in the public sector (unless you want to
speak to that topic as well). The focus of the consultation will thus be on how to make
The Innovation Journal the best little journal on innovation we can make it, as the editor
of the International Review of Administrative Sciences suggested.
One of the important outcomes I hope to achieve from the
consultation is to develop a truly international editorial board, which can secure
articles from the municipal, provincial/state and federal/national level in many
countries, and to create contacts which will allow us to secure those articles.
If you can, please focus your comments on the following issues. If
you feel other issues should be addressed, please let me know.
Q. 1- How to make the IJ the best little journal on public sector
innovation that it can be?
Q.2 - Who are the readers we are trying to attract?
- Public sector/alternate service delivery agency
managers/policy/program public servants, PIPEs (Public Interest Private Enterprise), PINAs
(Public Interest Non-profit Agencies), academics, students?
- Local, provincial, national, international government?
Q. 3 -
- What should the IJ cover?
- Only innovation, narrowly defined; public administration reform more
generally; local, provincial/state, national, international?
- Articles, speeches by professionals, academics, students, management
consultants?
- How should the agenda at the beginning be organized?
- Subject areas: the learning organization, the innovation process,
examples of innovation, government subject areas e.g. health, criminal justice, defence...
- One way/interactive?
- Please provide suggestions for topics
- Suggestions for authors
- Suggestions for books/reports to review
- Suggestions for humour
- Suggestions for topics to debate and who could debate them.
- Who could review articles on what subjects?
- Which other sites (include addresses) should we link to?
- How can we contribute to knowledge of best practices without staff?
- How would we weed out enthusiasm from genuine improvement?
- Who is interested in innovation? names, addresses, phone and fax
numbers and email addresses, please, if you have them.
Q.4 - How do we deal with barriers: not currently peer reviewed, no
intellectual property rights, no permanent record, uncertain how many years it will last.
Q.5 - What would constitute success?
