DYNAMIC GOVERNANCE

I N S T I T U T I O N A L I Z I N G C U LT U R E ,
C A PA B I L I T I E S
& CHANGES

BY:
SURYA DH ARMA, MPA, PhD
 WHY DYNAMIC GOVERNANCE ?

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If Institutions can
evolve and embed If bureaucratics public
Is the key to success cultures, and sectors institution can
in the world capabilities that learn to be dynamics,
undergoing enables continuous the lesson from their
accelerating learning and change, efforts could be
globalization and their contributions to a provide meaningful
unrelenting country’s and valuable insight
technological socioeconomics for transforming
advancement progress and organization in other
prosperity would be context
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 CAN GOVERNMENT BE DYNAMICS ?

Typical Government?

No
Passive Slow Rigid Bureaucracy
Entrepreneurial

Stick to Stick to rule

Inefficient
procedure procedure

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 WHAT IS CHARACTERISTICS OF DYNAMICS ?

Fresh Continual Unending Quick

New ideas
Perceptions Upgrading Change Actions

Fast and
Flexible Creative Continuous
Effective
Adaptations Innovations Learning
Executing

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 3 CRITICAL GOVERNMENT CAPABILITIES

THINKING AHEAD THINKING AGAIN THINKING ACROSS

The ability to perceive Thinking again the ability The ability and openness

early signals of future and willingness to rethink to cross boundaries to

developments that may and remake currently learn from the experience

affect a nation in order to functioning policies so that of others so that new

remain relevant to the they perform better ideas and concept may be

world introduced into an

institutions

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Three Cognitive Capabilities Of The Learning Process
Fundamental To Dynamic Governance Are:

Thinking Thinking Thinking

Ahead Again Across

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First, Government have to think ahead to understand
how the future would affect the country and put in
place policies to enable their people to cope with
potential threats and to take advantage of the new
opportunities available

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 Second, Environmental turbulence and change can make
past policies outdated an ineffective even in they had been
carefully and thought fully chosen. This, there is a need to
think again existing policies and programs to asses whether
they are still relevant to the national agenda and long term
needs of society, policies and programs have to be revised.

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 Third, in the new knowledge economy, survival requires
constant learning and innovation to meet new challenges and
exploit new opportunities. This meant that government need to
think across traditional country and domain boundaries in their
search for idea and interestingly practices that they can
customize and contextualize to their domestic environment.

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 FRAMEWORK FOR DYNAMIC GOVERNANCE SYSTEM
Future Insight CAPABILITES
Uncertainties
Fil
Thinking
Conceptualize CHANGE
Ahead
Able
People
Policy
Thinking Challenge Adaptive DYNAMIC
Again Policies GOVERNANCE
Eecution
Agile
Processes
Costumize

Thinking
Ideas
External Across
Practices Trade-offs
Contrainsts Confronts Catalyzes
CULTURE
Principles: Incorruptibility, Meritocracy, Markets, Pragmatism, Multi-racialism
Benefit: State Activism, Long-term, Relevance, Growth, Stability, Prudence, Self-Reliance
1. On the right is achieved when Adaptive policies are executed.
2. The foundation of dynamic Governance is a country’s institutional culture, shown on the base of figure 1.1
3. The three dynamics capabilities of Thinking Ahead, Thinking again, and Thinking Across that lead to adap time policie are
shown in the middle section.
4. There are two main levels for developing dynamic Government capabilities, able people and aside processes and there are
shown on the left figure 1.1.
5. The external environment affects the Government system through future uncertaintie, and external practices that are shown
as rectangles on the left.
6. Dynamic Government achieves current and future relevance and effectiveness.
7. Policy adaptation is not merely a passive reaction to external pressure but a proactive approach to innovation,
contextualization, and execution.
8. Policy innovation means that new and fresh idea are experimented and incorporated into policies so better and different
results may be achieved.
9. There ideas are contextually into policies so that citizens will appreciate and respond favorably to them.
10. Yet it is not just about new ideas and contextual design but about policy execution that makes dynamic government a
reality.
11. Our culture heritage-our shared values, beliefs, institutions, and customs influences our behaviour. While format rules will
reflect this heritage, it is the informal norms and conventions that are the most important career of cultural values.

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