Innovate To Save 0917th December 2009

Sessions House

Kent County Council

First you imitate, then you innovate. ~ Miles Davis

If you haven’t already, grab a prize from our

lucky dip in the flagstone area!

Have a spare moment, why not check out iNews?

Keeping you up to date with the latest innovative products, projects and events from across the

country.

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Alex King MBE, Deputy Leader of the Council will be

discussing the need to invest in innovation and

how it fits into the bigger picture for both Kent as well as KCC’s future at

9.45 am.

Why not try sharing

ideas like this?

When confronted with a challenge, use 'what if I

were the customer? How would I handle this

challenge?'

Dr. Alan Kennedy will be

sharing the secrets of NHS

success and how this approach

can be adopted more widely at

10am.

Want to read more about innovative, successful projects

within Kent?Then head over to the registration desk, located by the entrance, to pick up a ‘Stories of Change’ booklet.

The raffle will be drawn between 3 and 3.30pm.

Lots of great prizes including Visit Kent

t-shirts and fleeces, a£25 voucher for Kent on

Canvas, Kentish Fare juices, a £100 training voucher and

many more…

Are you working on a project where

someone else may have already done all

the hard work for you?

Damien Kennedy will be discussing how ‘The Key Programme’ intends to

eliminate this problem at 10.20am.

Organise people according to their skills and talents

for better creativity collaboration and

productivity

Interested in adopting

Knowledge Management in your everyday working life?

Then come along and listen to Tim Milner at

10.45am

Ask questions about everything.

After asking questions, ask

different questions. After asking

different questions, ask

them in a different way.

Writing about the event on Twitter or Yammer?

Then use the hashtag #innovatetosave

Will Perrin, former technology policy

advisor to the Prime Minister is now working on his

project ‘Talk About Local’.

Want to know why? Come along at

11.45 am.

Interested in discovering new

ways of communicating

online with staff in other teams?

Then come and hear Hollie Snelson, Internal

Communications Manager for KCC at

12.15.

Think outside the box by staying within the box.

Assemble small diverse teams from different

departments to promote a variety of ideas and

different perspectives.

Keeping you up to date with what the Technology, Research and Transformation

Team are working on.

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How can we use digital technologies

to mobilise untapped resources, like

people's creativity, energy and innovation?

Come along and hear Noel Hatch discuss this at

1pm.

Make sure you have collected your pack

from the registration desk located outside the Lecture Theatre.

“Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.”

- Albert Einstein

Interested in getting a quick and easy

overview of a large document or

dataset?

Andy Collett from IBM will be discussing how this can be achieved using ‘Many Eyes’

and ‘Wordle’ at 1.15pm.

Don't listen to what other people say. Follow the beat of your own drum.

Six Degrees to Seamlessness.

Dr. Norman Lewis will be discussing how YOU can use your social networks to make better decisions at 1.45pm.

Ever wondered where your nearest

meditation or Pilates class is?

Or how the unemployed can get involved with

different projects?Dougald Hine will be

talking about his projects at 2.15pm.

Thank you for coming along to Innovate To Save!