Public Governance Code for Chief Executive Excellence

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Public Governance Code for Chief Executive
Excellence
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Agenda

• The public sector in Denmark
• The starting point
• The Code
• The process
• Lessons
• The future

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Distribution of public sector functions today
Local authorities 45
The State 28
Counties (regions) 27
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Outline of the Danish structural reform

• The number of local authorities will be reduced
  from 271 to 98 13 counties will be reduced to 5
  regions
• Local authorities and the state will take over
  tasks from counties
• Regions will not have the right to levy taxes
• Fragile majority in Parliament behind reform

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Future distribution of public sector functions
Local authorities 49
The State 32
Regions 19
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Forum for Top Executive Management

• Our starting point
• Good leadership makes a difference
• Huge current and future challenges
• Public governance is different from corporate
  governance
• But how !?

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Ambitions of the Forum

• To provide a framework for a debate on top
  executive leadership.
• To create a common understanding of the
  challenges, the functions, and the roles of top
  executives.
• And thus
• To develop a code for Public Governance a
  holistic set of recommendations that would apply
  to the most important tasks of chief executives.

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Fundamental traits - emerging challenges

• Fundamental traits
• Tandem management
• Complex bottom line
• Openness and transparency
• Emerging challenges
• An expanded management universe
• Openness is not enough
• Multiple competing management principles

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Self-evaluation method

• 3 phases
• The full code a first sounding
• My chief executive role and management style
• My chief executive role in the future

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The Forum Process

• Opening Conference Sept. 2003
• Three Theme Panels
• Three Research Teams
• Three E-surveys
• Workshop Conference Feb. 2004
• Midpoint Conference Aug 2004
• Code Seminars
• Camp Code (I II)
• International Seminars
• Conference May 2005

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Forum for Top Executive Management

• Lessons
• Common need to discuss conditions and challenges
  among chief executives
• Chief executives across the public sector have a
  lot in common fruitful to work cross sector
• Fruitful cooperation between chief executives and
  academics
• Challenge to keep the focus on the chief
  executive as an individual

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The next milestones

• Proceed from a development phase to an action
  phase
• Three approaches
• A cross sector approach
• An organisational approach
• An individual approach

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Code implementation

Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
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Board
Secretariat
Research team
Research team
Research team
Panel
Panel
panel
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