Transforming the City of Portland Innovation Capability: Next Steps for the 2015 Innovation Fund

The purpose of this memo is to provide the City of Portland with a high-level roadmap of immediate next steps that it can take as it launches the 2015 Innovation Fund and the second phase of its strategic innovation initiative. This roadmap includes a comprehensive strategy that deploys communication, learning and incentive strategies and tactics. Once implemented, the result will be increased capacity and capability in city employees to create, test and roll-out new, creative ways of delivering public services to Portland citizens. City employees know that the government can do things differently and better, and if given the signal that they can do things differently, they will.