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Innovation in administrative reform is a dynamic process that changes the overall architecture of government, identifies issues and challenges, develops new processes, and creates, selects, and implements new solutions.
The intentional introduction and application within a role, group, or organization of ideas, processes, products or procedures, new to the relevant unit of adoption, designed to significantly benefit the individual, the group organization, or wider society.
Introduction: Innovation in the Public Sector
Innovation has become the industrial religion of the late twentieth century in both the public and private sectors. For example, business sees it as the key to increasing profits and market share through the development of new products and new ways of delivering services to customers, while governments see it as the way to fix the economy, especially service delivery. In the public...
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Ohemeng, F.L.K. (2017). Innovations in Administrative Reforms. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1218-1
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