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April 27, 2005
Meeting with Dr. McGroddy
ITU’s foresight panel is visiting Copenhagen tomorrow. The role of the foresight panel is to advise the ITU board on research. It consists of five people, all of whom have extensive experience with research and research management in world-class research environments. The panel is meeting once a year in Copenhagen.
One of the five people on the foresight panel is Dr. James C. McGroddy. McGroddy headed IBM’s Research Division from 1989 through 1995 and this year he has expressed interest in enterprise architecture and IT-governance. Therefore, the head of the DUIT department at ITU, Peter Carstensen has asked Professor Søren Lauesen and me to spend some time with Dr. McGroddy tomorrow. It is a great privilege for me and feedback from our meeting will be published shortly – after my wedding this weekend ;-)
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April 15, 2005
Governace literature by Carsten Greve
Carsten Greve is one of Denmark’s leading experts on public management and governance. He is currently director of a research project on "Partnering - Policy making and Regulation" financed in 2004-2008 by a grant from the Danish Social Science Research Council. Yesterday, we met and he recommended the following literature on governance:
Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research by Laurence E., Jr Lynn, et al
Governance and Performance: New Perspectives by Carolyn J. Heinrich (Editor), Laurence E. Lynn (Editor)
Managing The Electronic Government From Vision To Practice by KUNO SCHEDLER, LUKAS SUMMERMATTER, Bernhard Schmidt, Lawrence R. Jones (Editor), Nancy C. Roberts (Editor)
Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change by Jane E. Fountain
I know the Fountain book – the rest I had to order...
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April 13, 2005
Thank you boys!
This is an official THANK YOU to all my friends that participated in my polterabend this Saturday. I appreciate all your work! The (respectable) pictures will be published on www.hjort-madsen.dk before long.
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Conference program published
I have been invited to speak at a conference about the future of Danish municipalities held by TDC May 10. The conference program has just been published and I was very happy to see the speaking list. Here it is (in Danish):
Indledning v. Poul Victor Jensen, salgsdirektør, TDC Erhverv
Danmark med kurs mod fremtiden - seneste nyt fra Velfærdskommissionen v. Torben M. Andersen, formand for Velfærdskommissionen
Hvem er fremtidens borger? v. Sociolog Henrik Dahl
Fusioner og forandringsledelse - erfaringer fra den private sektor v. Jens Bjørnebo, it-driftschef i TrygVesta
Få styr på din it nu - anbefalinger til god proces for it i et helhedsperspektiv v. Kristian Hjort-Madsen
Hvordan kommer man igennem sammenlægningens faldgruber? v. Keld Hansen, vicekommunaldirektør, Løgumkloster kommune
I have not met Poul Victor Jensen, Poul Victor Jensen and Keld Hansen. But, Torben M. Andersen is perhaps Denmark’s leading economist and Henrik Dahl is one of my favourite Danish sociologists. Let’s see if I can keep up with them all...
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