2. Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures
in public administration:
Factors and determinants
doc. PhDr. Daniel Klimovský, PhD.
Comenius University in Bratislava
Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
Institute of Public Policy
Bratislava
15 December 2016

3. Agenda Public administration and innovations/reforms
Factors and determinants of adaptation to changes in public administration
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

4. Public administration and innovations/reforms
Public administration system should be sound and steady
However, there is no eternal public administration system
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

5. Public administration and innovations/reforms
Why do we need any innovations or reforms?
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

6. Public administration and innovations/reforms
Innovation/reform as an effort to adapt to changes
This effort is a never-ending story
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

7. Innovations ≠ reforms
Is there any difference between the innovations and the reforms?
Often semantic problem for scientists
Usually senseless discussion for practitioners
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

8. Innovations ≠ reforms
Innovation = implementation of a new approach, method or technology
Reform = implementation of a complex set of measures and tools (it is not necessarily connected to new approaches, methods or technologies)
Both innovation and reform leads to some kind of adaptation to changed circumstances
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

9. Factors and determinants
Metcalfe (1998, OECD):
Reforms/innovations in government often start with high expectations and end in disarray and disappointment. There are two basic reasons:
bureaucratic resistance to change
lack of political will
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

10. Factors and determinants
Metcalfe (1998, OECD):
However, although reformers/innovators get both the bureaucratic resistance and political will under control, it is not sufficient to guarantee the success of any reform/innovation.
It is possible to identify five conditions that can determine reform/innovation and its quality:
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

11. Factors and determinants
External pressure
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

12. Factors and determinants
External pressure
Internal dissatisfaction
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

13. Factors and determinants
External pressure
Internal dissatisfaction
Reform strategy
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

14. Factors and determinants
External pressure
Internal dissatisfaction
Reform strategy
Mechanism for managing reform
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

15. Factors and determinants
External pressure
Internal dissatisfaction
Reform strategy
Mechanism for managing reform
Feedback and evaluation
Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants

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Successful implementation of innovative/reform measures in public administration: Factors and determinants