The Theory of SPIN: Serial Professional Innovation Negation

It’s a truism that the public sector is risk averse and that that’s one of the things holding up the adoption of Web 2.0 approaches – and indeed quite a few Web 1.0 approaches.

It’s true in my opinion that the public sector can be too risk averse for our good, but there are very strong political incentives which mean that it won’t be easy throwing the switch to greater risk taking.

I think it’s more useful to be as forensic as we can about the kind of form that risk aversion takes. Here’s a theory – I’ll call it my theory of Serial Professional Innovation Negation or SPIN. Here’s how it works. Read more at gov2.net.au