Innovative Management Award

The Award is sponsored by IBM Canada and KPMG

2010 Theme: Collaboration at Work

Deadline: Closed
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.

Key Important Dates
Submission Deadline : Closed

The IPAC Award is sponsored by IBM and KPMG to celebrate and encourage innovative managerial initiatives in the public administration of Canada. The finalists make presentations at the IPAC Annual Conference and winners are declared at the final luncheon. IPAC has built a database of all entries to enable easy access to the wealth of ideas created by this award.

To recognize the exceptional management within the public sector of Canada, the Institute of Public Administration of Canada launched "The IPAC Award for Innovative Management" in 1990. Each year a new theme is chosen by the IPAC Board of Directors and the sponsors. Nominations are evaluated by a jury of eminent public servants, academics and business people.

These awards celebrate the bold and leading-edge initiatives that have yielded great results in many domains and fields of action. Nominations could include: initiatives to renew the public sector to make them as vital, diverse and exciting as the citizens they service, reduction of governments' carbon footprints and other green programs, international efforts for nation-building, engagement of citizens and better provision of services, idea and research laboratories, effective policy implementation and horizontal, collaborative and enterprise-wide changes.

Click here for a list and background information for the 2009 Innovative Management Award Finalists.

Click here for this year's criteria and procedures.Entry Form

Here is a list and background information for the 2008 Innovative Management Award Finalists.

Click here for the themes for the past nineteen years and summaries of the Award winners.

Click here For the Innovative Management Award Entry Form

Are you looking for new ideas? Use the Innovative Management Award Database, which allows tailored searches for the most innovative practices in the country. A search can be conducted through four mutually supporting fields, including keywords.