Seattle's CTO on what’s holding innovation back in the public sector and how to overcome it

At Govlaunch, we focus a lot on the culture of innovation and how this concept needs to be embraced by all levels of government and across departments in order to drive any real change. We appreciate the work of public sector innovation teams across the world, but have a hard time understanding how systemic innovation can blossom across an organization if left to a single department.

This interview dives more into a recent post by Saad Bashir on what is holding innovation back in the public sector and how Seattle is approaching internal team building and encouraging innovation from the ground up with results-oriented leadership (and some common sense). 

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Featured government: Seattle, WA

Episode guests: Saad Bashir, Chief Technology Officer

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