What the Public Sector Could Learn from the Private One

Abstract

The article aims at exploring how the public sector can benefit from the examples of the private one, how can it effectively innovate to serve citizens better and more efficiently. The ability of effective management is no less important in order to make the right decisions in the policy planning process and to achieve the set goals. In modern democracies, the political leadership of various branches turn over more frequently and to a larger extent than it does in the private corporations. A government could adopt some of the efficient models from the business sector and adjust them to the public domain accordingly. For this reason, examples will be drawn based on the practices of some famous business models as Adobe or Google. Concluding ideas will be discussed with regard to the main needs for a government to innovate by working with the private sector or attracting new public sector leaders.