ENEDOS 2024 week 21
Next week: Motivations for digitalization in the municipal sector; agile car manufacturers; data sharing in the public sector + Blockchain-based project management, Swedish Collaboration, HR problems
Why do Swedish municipalities digitalize?
WHAT? Swedish study the real motivations behind digitalization projects in municipalities.
It’s INTERESTING that:
Four types of value propositions are promoted in public services: efficient use of resources, professionalism, service, and engagement. Improvements are meaningful when they serve one or more of these.
However, digitalization initiatives were mainly motivated by municipalities receiving mandates, peer pressure among municipalities, and the desire to appear modern.
The mandates often reflect explicit policies, leading to measures being introduced without the policy's purpose being apparent.
AND SO?
National governments often design and drive digital policy, but the downside is that the purpose can be lost along the way.
It's good to have a framework for discussing valid value propositions in the public sector, even though they are a bit too inside-out and should also consider the actual benefits they provide.
Agile car manufacturing
WHAT? A German study (pre-pub) about introducing agile development practices in car manufacturing, including design work.
It’s INTERESTING that:
The authors believe that agility—due to greater uncertainty in the environment (VUCA)—is becoming necessary for car manufacturers.
Ambitious performance goals for agile practices in this industry are also promoted: They should be self-reinforcing, function at the project level, support the development of large and complex challenges, facilitate learning across projects, optimize themselves, be scalable, and be sensiblely implementable.
A framework is promoted with processes, methods, tools, and skills supporting scalable agility.
AND SO?
The main motivation for agile car factories is the ability to quickly develop solutions under pressure and uncertainty.
It is interesting that they so quickly seek ways to scale agility. Cars are different beasts than most IT solutions..
Sharing data in the public sector
WHAT? Large study of citizens' attitudes towards sharing health data in the public sector.
It’s INTERESTING that:
The study was conducted in 12 European countries (including Norway) with responses from over 5000 respondents. The findings are reasonably similar across all countries.
Respondents were faced with choices regarding who collects data (health service provider, commercial companies, or research), data usage (national authority, technology provider, pharmaceutical company, research), the purpose of data use (quality assessment, service development, advertising, political decision-making), type of consent to data sharing, and access to evaluation.
Preferences were as expected and in line with prevalent values in Europe, namely that commercial interests were least trusted and that transparency and accountability were important.
AND SO?
This is a sketch that can guide a more rational overarching framework for data sharing in the healthcare sector, where privacy is not such an absolute and inhibiting requirement.
The fact that findings are reasonably similar across countries and regions shows that citizens think alike on this, but varying trust in authorities might lead to some variation in solutions..
Bonus
Results of blockchain-based project management in decentralized organizations.
Swedish report about results from an interagency collaboration in Sweden.
Brazilian literature review about HR problems in software development.
Next week: Black swans and leaders' blind spots; agile leadership and sustainability; digitalization of Norwegian child protection + psychological competence in HR management, infrastructure first in South Korea, open social innovation.