Unpacking the black box of successful ICT-enabled service transformation: how to join up the vertical, the horizontal and the technical

Abstract

This paper aims to understand what goes on in the black box of successful, joined-up ICT-enabled service transformation, where complex interactions and integration must occur among the horizontal processes internal to a joined-up service delivery network, the vertical top-down processes of the organizations involved, and the change processes caused by using ICTs. A new conceptual framework is developed and applied to an illustrative case study of successful, joined-up service transformation in New Zealand.

Keywords:

• Collaboration
• complexity management
• ICT
• joined-up government
• New Zealand
• service transformation