A vision or idea is not a project or program, Analysis is not an answer, A strategy or report is a means to an end, not the end in itself. You don’t have to (and probably should not) define a specific pathway to achieving your desir end result, but defining a clear end can be helpful in motivating people and action. (3) DO Open silo doors from the outside.
Governments are easy to criticize
Their bureaucratic silos, but that’s not entirely fair. All large organizations, including governments, are design to withstand silo-busting behavior because constant lane changes on a highway can cause accidents. Silos can only be broken from the outside. Breaking a silo from within is rebellion.
Breaking more than one is anarchy.
Can’t (or don’t want to) bring in a consultant or non-profit partner to step in as an outside facilitator? Structure a competition or even a simply a botim database solicitation for ideas across departments. Building safe spaces and jargon-free zones will keep departments from taking a territorial or defensive posture of how another’s “innovation” could affect their bottom line or workload, and allow people to focus on collectively solving a shar problem.
Not all ideas should survive.
If they do, then you weren’t thinking big enough. When I was working with the City of El Paso, we develop ideas for new waste-to-energy investments they work hard to write that could generate electricity by creatively managing waste from unusual sources, such as the local branch of the Feral Reserve and the local zoo. While interesting and potentially viable, after multiple iterations, the idea prov to be a poor stand-alone fit for the city at the time. Sometimes ideas are too early for their time, too complicat, or too new.
That is okay! Just keep them
Your own personal parking lot. (5) DO Make it easy for people to help you. While everyone seems to be busier these days, people are also inclin to be helpful. You can harn tg data ess their inclination to be helpful by making it easy for them.