So sorry to be taking so long to comment. I keep snatching time to absorb all so I can make useful if not late comments.
This is what I am wrestling with...
The tender doc is requesting something that is actually quite a simple (albeit a little elusive) thing The proposals are very complex...
Now, this could be to do with the process of tendering itself and the form in which you have to tender
Or, it might be to do with overload to do with having read too much and not having had time to step back or neither of the above.
My critical question would be : can you really expect an innovation exchange which takes all its referecne points currently from the public sector to come up with something new? Innovation happens in all areas of the economy and world and having looked at it now for 5 or six years the most interesting developments look to me like they may come back to us from other countries - whether it be models from the developing world or even, god forbid, the US.
Our own sectors have struggled with innovation (albeit models are a plenty) Hence, no doubt the need for new thinking.
Btw. By day I am an Innovation Exec at the BBC (currently working with the World Service Trust, an NGO) by night am setting up a new social enterprise. I am also currently a Student at the School for Social Entrepreneurs. So wearing many hats on this one.
better late than never
So sorry to be taking so long to comment. I keep snatching time to absorb all so I can make useful if not late comments.
This is what I am wrestling with...
The tender doc is requesting something that is actually quite a simple (albeit a little elusive) thing The proposals are very complex...
Now, this could be to do with the process of tendering itself and the form in which you have to tender
Or, it might be to do with overload to do with having read too much and not having had time to step back or neither of the above.
My critical question would be : can you really expect an innovation exchange which takes all its referecne points currently from the public sector to come up with something new? Innovation happens in all areas of the economy and world and having looked at it now for 5 or six years the most interesting developments look to me like they may come back to us from other countries - whether it be models from the developing world or even, god forbid, the US.
Our own sectors have struggled with innovation (albeit models are a plenty) Hence, no doubt the need for new thinking.
Btw. By day I am an Innovation Exec at the BBC (currently working with the World Service Trust, an NGO) by night am setting up a new social enterprise. I am also currently a Student at the School for Social Entrepreneurs. So wearing many hats on this one.