Challenge
- Administrative development without short-term pressure to reform.
Solution
- Intensive work with a group of experts: politicians, trade and labour unions, state and municipal administrations, the State Audit Office, the Ombudsman Board, and external administrative experts.
Impact
- Based on a well-founded analysis of the initial situation and future challenges, the expert group not only provided the state parliament, as the client, with several variants for a cross-regional restructuring of public administration in the state of Vorarlberg but also more than 60 packages of measures. These are now being successfully implemented.
The project
The client
Vorarlberg state administration
Duration
December 2013 until December 2014
In a comprehensive assessment of the current situation (based, for example, on a financial comparison with other provinces, exploratory talks with opinion leaders in and outside the provincial administration), the positive starting position was confirmed throughout.
On the other hand, the analysis of future challenges revealed a growing need for development, which led to a fundamental rethinking of public administration structures and several alternative models for the future.
In addition, based on a task-reform, the potential for change was examined, and around 60 packages of measures were derived, which in turn were broken down into several individual steps in some cases. The expert group processed these accordingly and supplemented them with specific recommendations for implementation and summarized them in a published report, which is now being successively implemented.
Our services
Accompaniment of the process
- Project planning and setting up the project management
- Preparation, facilitation, and documentation of the expert group workshops
- Support in the documentation of the results
Technical support
- Conducting a financial comparison with other federal states and other analyses
- Expert input on change strategies and measures
Methodological know-how
- Methodological support for the work of the expert group (strategy and structure development, task refom, and identification of measures)