Focus: ‘Practising the art of governance design’
Trademark
We hereby inform you that PRIMO Europe is formally approved – on the 28th of July 2020 – in its registration of FORTE Framework for Good Governance® as a trademark in the Benelux as well as that we have registered FORTE® as our idea/concept/set of thoughts as is education/consultancy product/service via i-Depot until 2024 for a broader use worldwide.
Idea
The need for an integrated and transdisciplinary public governance approach is essential to enable leaders and organisations to truly deliver the electorally promised and democratically chosen values related to the public domain, i.e. society and nature as a whole.
The governance of delivering public values is challenging and even under pressure. Governance needs a thorough reflection, given the fact that public risks are emerging on a large scale. In the last 15 years, PRIMO has recorded many public risks in its network throughout Europe.
PRIMO surveyed and studied under leaders the crucial elements of governance to contribute to a more focused, coordinated and effective governance. They are addressed in an integrated framework FORTE®. The framework offers the possibility to uniquely co-create and tap the knowledge of your team, employees and clients.
With FORTE® you can
Public and business surveys of the last 15 years show us that if content and governance are not well connected, risks will emerge. The World Economic Forum published in this period yearly Global Risks Reports, showing the evolution in risks. Also the Lloyds City Risk Index is a good example of systematic monitoring of risk. Sometimes within acceptable (mostly, ex-post defined) margins, but more and more crossing the line of what we define as good governance. The scale of emerging risks seems to increase, underline the need for cooperation between all stakeholders and more precise thinking and acting. With FORTE® you can. It is available for members.
The research (written, peer-reviewed , published)
Jack P. Kruf, Simon Grima, Murat Kizilkaya, Jonathan Spiteri, Wouter Slob, John O’Dea | December 2019
Purpose
In this article we lay out and discuss a framework proposed by the Public Risk Management Organisation (PRIMO) of which the authors are board members and the results of a test on public and private entities of EU small jurisdictions, specifically Malta, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Cyprus. These are countries within the EU having less than 3 million people population.
Design/methodology/approach
We collected our primary data by using a semi-structured questionnaire and administering it to participants who are working directly or indirectly with entities within these EU states. The questionnaire was structured using the FORTE™ acronym as themes, ‘Financial and compliant design’, ‘Object orientation and delivery’, ‘Responsibility and stewardship’, ‘Tools and processes for creation’ and ‘Environmental awareness and interaction’, with 5 statements under each theme to which participants were required to answer using a 5-point Likert-scale ranging from “Strongly Disagree” to “Strongly Agree”. We, however, allowed the participants to open up and discuss each statement and recorded these comments.
Some demographic data was also collected as to the type of entity the participants are working with, the level of expertise on governance of the participant and the size of the entity. The quantitative data was subjected to statistical analysis while the results from the open ended question was analysed using the Thematic approach.
Findings
Factor analysis provided support for the FORTE Good Governance model for both the Private and Public entities, no-matter if they are small or large. Originality/value: The study provides a better understanding and supports the FORTE Model established by PRIMO-Europe, after approximately 15 years of collecting data on public risks and for the first time tests it on both Private and Public entities, in large and small firms in small EU Jurisdictions. Moreover, this model contributed to the vast literature on models of risk management within organisations, but was not validated empirically for reliability of the factors, and on small jurisdictions.
Therefore, the significance and importance of such a study lies firstly on the premise that testing on small countries, can be deemed as small laboratories for more complex politics, regulations and policies of larger countries.
Bibliography
Kruf, J., Grima, S., Kizilkaya, M., Spiteri, J., Slob, W., & O’Dea, J. (2019). FORTE™ Framework for Good Governance. European Research Studies Journal, Volume XXII, Issue 4, 15-34, 2019. DOI: 10.35808/ersj/1494
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