The mission of Leadership for a Networked World is to help leaders activate innovations and realize transformations that generate capacity and sustainable public value.
Founded in 1987 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University by Dr. Jerry Mechling, LNW is now a think-tank that works with the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard and academic institutions globally to provide uniquely powerful leadership summits, transformation programs, and advisory services. Since 1987, LNW (E-government Executive Education - “3E,” prior to 2005) has conducted more than 200 learning events and gathered more than 12,000 alumni globally.
Currently, LNW initiatives are focused on the global “capacity challenge:” Structural deficits, demographic changes and citizen demands are rapidly changing the operating environment and competitive landscape of government, pressuring ability to provide public value. To succeed in this new era, leaders must transform organizational capacity to deliver current services, create new solutions, increase transparency and equity, and - most importantly - help people, families and communities realize their full potential.
Transformations of this magnitude require leaders to envision, launch and grow innovations in both their organizational model and technology model. Increasingly, these innovations are moving across traditional organizational boundaries – departments, jurisdictions, branches of government and sectors of society – and represent the next wave of the many opportunities and challenges opened by information and communication technologies and network-enabled organizational models.
To ensure success, leaders have to make difficult decisions and choices about the level of reform and the pace of adaptation, and LNW helps guide the journey.
