By becoming digital disruptors themselves, not just adding digital services but digitalizing to transform their operations, governments can seize the initiative from the nimble new entrants invading their traditional turf and greatly enhance their own competitiveness.
By becoming public entrepreneurs, in partnership with the new digital businesses and micro-multinationals that now account for such a large share of new jobs, they can catalyze a digital economy that will sustain innovation and drive economic growth.
This report describes how digital leaders in government are delivering public service for the future—and how others can follow their example.
Accenture examined the digital transformation of government, looking at the impact digital services have on a country’s economy, competitiveness, government innovation and its citizens through a research report and a global pulse survey.
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In this study, we focus on the portfolio of measures available to policymakers that could boost productivity, entrepreneurship, government innovation and growth in the economy.
In this study, we focus on the portfolio of measures available to policymakers that could boost productivity, entrepreneurship, government innovation and growth in the economy.
In this study, we focus on the portfolio of measures available to policymakers that could boost productivity, entrepreneurship, government innovation and growth in the economy.
In this study, we focus on the portfolio of measures available to policymakers that could boost productivity, entrepreneurship, government innovation and growth in the economy.
The expectations of government’s constituents are changing just as radically.
The Accenture Digital Government Pulse Survey shows that digital natives demand simpler, faster and cheaper government services, equivalent to the mobile services accessible through apps and social media that they receive commercially.
Governments need to capitalize on these digtal advantages-and not only by digitalizing their own processes, workforces and infrastructure. They also need to digitalize through government.
By becoming public entrepreneurs—enabling a digital economy with the right regulatory environment, investments and ecosystems—governments can actually drive innovation.
In this study, we focus on the portfolio of measures available to policymakers that could boost productivity, entrepreneurship and government innovation.
We benchmarked the digital maturity of 30 different countries against six key measures:
Economic competitiveness;
Public sector productivity;
Constituent satisfaction;
Citizen engagement;
ICT development; and
Digital priority
and found:
To become future-ready, a government needs to drive digitalization proactively.
A future-ready government should also have an entrepreneurial and performance-driven workforce of digitally savvy administrators committed to driving innovation and capable of addressing the complexities of increasingly virtualized business. It should establish a collaborative service ecosystem, encompassing all sectors and connecting them through common digital platforms to achieve a shared goal.
These are the characteristics of a government capable of delivering public service for the future. The time to start building them is now.
Accenture Citizen Survey, November 2013
Open & insights-driven services. Creating an "open-paradigm" of government and leveraging Big Data to catalyse new digital economics, developing an intelligence-driven responses capability. |
Collaborative services ecosystem. Collaborating in new innovation ways with the private and third sector and experimenting with the new models of public service delivery. |
Government as a disruptor. Establishing a bold, risk-taking culture of disrupting current infrastructure and processes for a step change in the public services. |
Resilient mission-critical infrastructure. Designing services that are ‘always on’ and robust to facilitate fast-paced technological change, as well as being highly secure, so citizens are assured of their personal data. |
Entrepreneurial & Performance-driven workforce. Selling the right incentive and conditions for entrepreneurs to thrive and for the public services workforce to be digitally-savvy and productive. |
Engaged citizenry. Building a political culture where citizens are motivated and engaged with their representatives and co-design public policies. |
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