Agile and Pro-Active Public Administration as a Collaborative Networked Organization

TL;DR

The paper explores how public administrations can become more agile and proactive by adopting collaborative network models like Virtual Organizations and VOBEs, enhancing their responsiveness and technological integration.

Contribution

It introduces the application of Virtual Organization and VOBE models to public administration, highlighting benefits and proposing VOBEs as a public service component.

Findings

Public administration benefits from acting as a VO customer and member.

VOBEs can enhance agility and technological adoption.

VOBEs promote advanced management methods.

Abstract

In highly competitive, globalized economies and societies of always-on-line people intensively using the Internet and mobile phones, public administrations have to adapt to new challenges. Enterprises and citizens expect public administrations to be agile and pro-active to foster development. A way to achieve agility and pro-activity is application of a model of Collaborative Network Organizations in its two forms: Virtual Organizations (VO) and Virtual Organization Breeding Environments (VOBE). In the paper, advantages are shown of public administration playing a role of a Virtual Organization customer on the one hand, and a Virtual Organization member on the other hand. It is also shown how public administration playing a role of a Virtual Organization Breeding Environment may improve its agility and promote advanced technologies and management methods among local organizations. It is argued in the paper that public administration should provide a Virtual Organization Breeding Environment as a part of public services.