Innovative Management Award

In 1990, IPAC established "The IPAC Award for Innovative Management" to recognize the exceptional management within the public sector of Canada. Each year a new theme is chosen by the IPAC Board of Directors and our sponsors - IBM Canada and KPMG. In those 20 years we have been privileged to see many extraordinary examples of innovation at its best from right across the full spectrum of the public sector in Canada. On the IPAC website we have a database of all the winners and finalists through all these years.

In many years IPAC receives 100 submissions from across the country. These 100 submissions are whittled down to a group of finalists who are invited to present their innovative management submission to a jury composed of distinguished public servants. The top three finalists are then invited to make presentations at the IPAC Annual Conference and winners are announced.

This years theme is "Collaboration at Work".

Governments in Canada and around the world face complex problems that reach across ministerial mandates, regulatory purview and jurisdictions, and affect citizens and stakeholders in predictable and unintended ways. While resources are increasingly limited, citizens expect governments to work together to tackle "wicked problems."

Collaboration is needed within an entire governmental enterprise or public organization, with other governments, the broader public sector, NGOs and with citizens. Natural disasters or flu epidemics, adapting to and mitigating climate change, dealing with the impacts of a global recession, caring for the most vulnerable members of our society, or helping other countries develop their institutions and public services: one single government entity, acting alone, cannot achieve the results that our citizens expect.

We demand that governments act in concert with actors from business, civil society as well as with citizens, and work effectively with other orders of government to achieve the best outcomes. We require that this cooperative approach be cost effective, swift, innovative and transparent. We also expect public sector values to be respected.

For 2010, the Innovative Management Awards will recognize governmental/public sector organizations that have shown new and innovative ways of cutting across bureaucratic boundaries and silos to address the complex issues facing society.

The deadline to submit your application is June 7, 2010.  Go to the Innovative Management section of the IPAC website to fill in the application form.