December 11, 2018
How innovative governments are collaborating horizontally to solve complex problems
The complex challenges that governments at all levels are facing today cut across long-standing and well-defined government boundaries and organizational structures. Solving these problems therefore requires a horizontal approach. This report looks at how such an approach can be successfully implemented.
How are they achieving this? We answer this question by using an analytical framework organized along three fundamental dimensions: governance (structuring accountability and responsibility), people (managing culture and personnel), and data (collecting, transmitting and using information). In each of our three cases, we show how specific steps taken along one of these dimensions can help overcome important obstacles that commonly arise and, in so doing, enable successful horizontal collaboration.
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Author
Michael Crawford Urban
Release Date
December 11, 2018
ISBN
978-1-77259-073-9
Mowat Research
No. 178