A National Defence Ministry, UK

a national defence ministry (the defence ministry), UK Development of an innovation framework for the national defence ministry, to manage an 800m innovation fund and establish an innovation culture.

(Aug 2018-Feb 2019) In 2018, Oxford Oracle was awarded a contract with the UKs a national defence ministry (the defence ministry) to research, develop and implement an overarching innovation framework to encourage the development of a culture of innovation within the organisations 56,000 civilian employees. The project involved desk-based research and benchmarking to identify examples of successful innovation frameworks in some of the largest public and private sector organisations throughout the world, and the conduction of in-depth stakeholder interviews throughout major sites for each of the Armed Forces to examine current innovation activities with the defence ministry and how they could be brought together in a challenge-based approach to innovation. Two large stakeholder workshops were also conducted to test initial models proposed for the framework, and codify the optimum approach.

Oxford Oracle then provided implementation support to the defence ministry to enable the initial open calls for funding under the innovation framework to occur. The exercise was credited by the defence ministry with introducing a culture of innovation within the organisation and the initial calls have resulted in a number of calls for proposals, the first of which is covered in this press release: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/accelerator-themed-competition-revolutionise-the-human-information-relationship-for-defence/defence-innovation-initiative-information Brief Description Development of an innovation framework for the national defence ministry, to manage an 800M (315M KWD) innovation fund and establish an innovation culture. Permission required from client for use