Best practice Cases of the 4th Quality Conference for Public Administration in the EU

GEIDE MSS /GEIDE

Country: 

Luxembourg

Organisation:

Ministry of Social Security - IGSS

www homepage:

www.mss.etat.lu/

Contact person:

Georges SCHROEDER

Address:

26, rue Zithe, L-2763 Luxembourg

E-mail:

georges.schroeder@igss.etat.lu

Phone:

478-6330

Fax:

48 04 02

Level:

State

Sector:

Social sector

Short description of the case:

IGSS (General Inspectorate for Social Security) is a key entity of the Ministry of Social Security dealing with: -legal and international affairs -policy analysis (statistics, actuary and social programs) -audit of social security institutions and supplementary pension schemes -long term care evaluation In the late 90th IGSS asked a consultant how to get a better management of its paper flow and how to share the knowledge between the different staff entities. Upon the recommendation of the consultant a Lotus Notes based electronic management of all documents was introduced. The paper archives were replaced by a computer based file system, entering correspondence is addressed by e-mail to the agent in charge of the matter, outgoing papers are validated according to a computer based workflow. Additional features of the system are the sharing of agendas, access to the library, worktime and holidays management, internal news bulletin.

Main feature of the case:

- The involvement and satisfaction of personnel

- Innovation and implementing change

Key words:

e-government- workfow - document and knowledge management

Further information:

Long case description (PDF-form)
Case presentation (PDF-form)