The purpose of this paper was to identify common themes from archival records related to innovation in the Australian Public Service (APS). A thematic analysis was conducted to review and evaluate archival records which consisted of transcripts from senior manager presentations at Innovation Month seminars from 2014 to 2018 and other related official documents. This empirical study addressed innovation from the leaders’ perspective, reflecting upon their experience. Analysing themes within archival records helped to gain insights from various perspectives of leaders on how they regard an innovation agenda for the APS. Three themes emerged from archival records: (1) innovation characteristics; (2) drivers of innovation; and (3) barriers to innovation. Synthesis of these drivers and barriers can provide important insights for senior APS managers on how they can enhance their organisations’ ability to innovate in order to respond to digital disruption challenges and opportunities. Variety of perspectives with leader’s perceptions informs about authors’ selection of the research question among consistent patterns and legitimates the salient themes as input for QSR NVivo 11.
Inspections of bridge mandated by the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) are required to be performed every two years. On an NBI inspection, inspectors go out to the field and collect inspection information based on the requirement of the state owning the bridge. Since the development of mobile computing devices, such as notebook computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and pen computers, many organizations have been trying to deliver computing support for bridge inspectors in the field using these devices in order to improve productivity. However, some bridge inspectors are still using paperbased forms and clipboards during their inspection activity. From our experience with bridge inspectors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, District 11, the user interface modality as well as the mobility of the hardware have major effects on the usability of such systems. It has been long known that the success or failure of a particular application depends significantly on the way the user interacts with the system. We have studied the use of a wearable computer to provide an unobtrusive hardware platform supporting bridge inspection. This paper specifically discusses the potential use of speech recognition for the bridge inspection application in order to improve the usability of the user interface. The background of speech recognition technology, along with the results of our preliminary study will be discussed in this paper.
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