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Competence in Transforming the Norwegian Welfare Sector: A Case Study and Implications for Future E-Government Initiatives

Competence in Transforming the Norwegian Welfare Sector: A Case Study and Implications for Future E-Government Initiatives
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Author(s): Knut H. Rolland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)and Torgeir Dingsøyr (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 13
Source title: Handbook of Research on ICT-Enabled Transformational Government: A Global Perspective
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vishanth Weerakkody (Brunel University, UK), Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)and Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Swansea University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-390-6.ch014

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Abstract

E-government initiatives need to take the competence involved in producing high-quality services for citizens into account. We draw on insights from a pilot project in a Norwegian municipal aiming at radically restructuring the Norwegian welfare sector and show how the competence to provide highquality services rely on the collective achievement of individuals’ knowing-in-practice when dealing with particular cases and situations. Furthermore, we show how competence in terms of ‘processes of knowing’ is intrinsically related to organization structure and existing information systems. Transforming the Norwegian Welfare Sector then, involves transforming a sociotechnical network of heterogeneous elements, where existing processes of knowing plays an important role. Based on this, we discuss implications for implementing e-government in local municipals, and in particular e-government initiatives that aim at introducing all-embracing integrated IT solutions across organizational and geographical borders. The chapter concludes by sketching implications for future research on e-government.

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