When the first in-house companies of the public administration approached the Foundation for Digital Sustainability, they did so with a non-episodic curiosity and with a precise awareness: the issue of digital sustainability could not be interpreted as a mere reputational exercise, nor as a label to be added to already defined projects. On the contrary, … Read more
There is a metaphor that Robert Pirsig consigned to 20th century culture that has lost none of its relevance. In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he distinguishes two opposing ways of relating to technology: that of the maintenance technician, who understands how the machine works, knows its mechanisms, governs it; and that of … Read more
In-house companies are always faced with a dilemma: self-production or market. It is a dilemma related both to the production factors they have at their disposal, their capacity for growth, and the strategic positioning they have or want to maintain. The typical question related to this dilemma is whether one is a substitute for the … Read more
Due to their mission, ICT in-house companies play a delicate and fundamental role in engaging public and private stakeholders, and in facilitating the creation and structuring of effective and transparent collaborations, while respecting roles, to chart sustainable digitisation in a world full of uncertainties. The active involvement of public stakeholders, mainly members of in-house companies, … Read more
The objectives for sustainable development are many and not always immediately relevant to the activities of an ICT in-house. In the following, an attempt is made to illustrate what the resulting relationships might be by indicating three types of actions: – Direct Action (D): ICT activities immediately related to the achievement of the SDG. – … Read more
The digital transformation of the Public Administration is no longer just a technical or infrastructural issue: it is a lever of public, sustainable value, capable of generating economic and social spin-offs, if guided with vision and awareness. The challenge is not only to ‘go digital’, but to ensure that digital serves the PA – and … Read more
In the context of digital transformation, accelerated today by Artificial Intelligence, In-House companies play a crucial strategic role. Indeed, they are not limited to collecting the needs of public administrations, but have the task of interpreting, structuring and translating them into technical specifications and concrete requirements. It is not just a matter of redefining existing … Read more
ICT in-house companies are characterised by a number of fundamental and indispensable elements, also based on operational flexibility, in order to meet the needs of their public member organisations. The first element is domain expertise, i.e. the knowledge and skills required to perform activities in particular fields and sectors of public administration, characterised by a … Read more
An in-house company aims to maximise the effectiveness of the action of its controlling administration. This approach is a far cry from that of a company whose aim is to maximise profit or increase revenue, since in this case the objective is to maximise the equity of the action that the public administration exercises on … Read more
The public administration has a central and irreplaceable role in the country’s digital transformation. Not only as an institutional player, but as a structural enabler of what we now, with increasing clarity, call digital sustainability. When the digital is at the service of the PA – and when the PA is truly capable of being … Read more
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