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Chapter II
Towards T-Government by
Increasing Process Maturity
in Public Sector
Jurij Jaklič
University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
Mojca Indihar Štemberger
University of Ljubljana, Slovenija
ABSTRACT
A successful e-government implementation cannot do without some kind of business process change,
not only of the front-office parts of processes, but the entire processes, which often flow through several
departmental units or even several government agencies. Further advances of e-government that lead
to t-government, are not possible without an integration of business processes. The implementation of
t-government requires a high level of business process orientation and typically involves a business
process change project. Non-profit organisations have some specifics, which make process renovation
projects considerably different. The purpose of this chapter is to present an approach that enables
governmental institutions to move towards t-government. The general framework for business process
change methodologies, techniques and tools is customised for their needs and extended with several other
business process management elements, e.g. measurement of the level of business process orientation
in an organisation. The relationship between business process orientation levels and the sophistication
of online services is shown through a case study of one of the Slovene ministries, where the proposed
adapted methodology has been successfully employed.