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Revisiting the Death of New Public Management
In this “breathless” time where new conceptual frameworks emerge by the minute, it makes sense to step back and reflect on our thinking of… last week. In the “revisiting” series, I want to point to some of the older postings … Continue reading
Beyond Competitive Strategy
For 30 years competitive strategy (the five forces, portfolio analysis, learning, new market development, blue oceans) has determined how we think strategy. Competitive strategy was built on the 19th Century Prussian military understanding that business could be described through strategic … Continue reading
Fabrics of Trust
Massive/enhanced collaboration is such a new phenomena that we still do not know what it can really do for us. Are Wikipedia and Couchsurfing a small organizations because they have very few staff? Or big, because many people collaborate? Is … Continue reading
Colombia 2.0
I just came back from Colombia, teaching Government 2.0 as a compact course. To see pictures, go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/philippmueller/ColombiaJuly2008 My argument in the course was that new modes of collobaration that become possible when technologies and new social practices reduce … Continue reading
Public Policy 2.0
Von New Public Management zu Public Policy 2.0 Seit mehreren Jahrzenten werden mit New Public Management, dem neuen Steuerungsmodell, wirkungsorientierter Verwaltung, Digital-era governance und der Idee der Netzwerk-Gesellschaft unsere Grundüberzeugungen vom Gemeinwohl und Staatlichkeit aufgeweicht und schleichend ersetzt. Public Policy, … Continue reading
The Radical Potential of Open Source
Open source can be innocently defined as practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s sources. However, this concept has radical and disruptive potential. This potential comes from freeing the access to the production process. If … Continue reading
Digital-Era Governance
Patrick Dunleavy (LSE), Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Insitute), and Simon Bastow/Jane Tinker (LSE) have written a seminal piece in J-PART: New Public Management is Dead — Long Live Digital-Era Governance describing the developments in “leading-edge” countries (UK, US, Australia, Canada, … Continue reading
Open Statecraft for a Brave New World
Open government is the doctrine and governance approach which holds that the business of government and state administration should be opened at all levels to effective public scrutiny and oversight to improve capacity and legitimacy of collective action. It outlines … Continue reading
The Age of Engineering
Engineering is defined by a focus on the world in the “ends-means” binary: what means allow me to reach the end efficiently? So are we moving into a new age of engineering? Auren Hoffman wrote an interesting article at Techcrunch … Continue reading
