A presentation by Ines Mergel (University of Konstanz). This event is part of the Digital Governance Research Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Digital Governance.
Abstract: Using agile approaches and methods has become a trend in government that is still not well understood – neither by practitioners, nor by academics. The result is oftentimes a faux-agile approach, where consultants offer the right wording in their offers, but rarely implement the principles in practice. Government officials might be using it once, but are never quite able to replicate or adapt it into their linear, bureaucratic routines. While there are usually no legal barriers, there might be administrative, procedural or cultural barriers that prevent the adoption of the principals and methods of agile into government. The question is therefore: What are the social affordances of agile government that need to be in place for public administrators to adopt an agile mindset and its related methods?
Prof. Dr. Ines Mergel is University Professor of Digital Governance at the University of Konstanz (Germany) where she directs the Digital Governance Lab. Before joining the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz, Professor Mergel served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor with tenure at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (USA). She served as doctoral and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (USA) and received a Doctor of Business Administration degree from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) inaugurated Professor Mergel as a fellow in 2018.
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