The district of Harz is planning to set standards in the future topic of 'digitalization'. It is about the people in the Harz region and about companies that are to be offered modern and future-proof location conditions. For this reason, CPC was commissioned to carry out a study that is both an inventory, concept and implementation starting point for digitization in the Harz district. Together with the district administration, companies, universities and educational institutions, specific measures and solutions were developed and are now being implemented.
This study is the result of cooperation between politics, public administration and business. Harz AG as an institution of companies has made the investment possible. It would like to make its contribution to the Harz district taking on a leading role in Saxony-Anhalt. The administration - the district administration - was placed at the center of the investigation. Public administrations are not considered pioneers when it comes to digitalization. The Online Access Act (OZG) therefore obliges federal, state and local authorities to offer their administrative services digitally via administrative portals by the end of 2022. The district of Harz sees the OZG as a trigger to create a modern administration that uses digitalization to become more effective, more efficient and, above all, more citizen-friendly.
Even if studies by their very nature are initially nothing more than a pile of real or virtually printed paper, the focus of our joint investigations and analyses has always been on the realization of solutions, true to the motto: "Nothing good happens unless you do it". For these reasons, we have already involved people in action during the study in order to smooth the transition to the implementation phase. As a consultancy that pursues tangible projects and Change Management , we were pleased to find this attitude among all those involved and to be able to promote it in line with our corporate philosophy.
The new district administrator of the Harz district, Thomas Balcerowski, has taken up the initiative to promote his vision of a modern administration and put the district in a pioneering role in the near future. The study identifies a number of fields of action from which seven lighthouse projects have been derived that now need to be implemented.