Ilpo Laitinen

Administration

PASCAL Hierarchy:

3.00

PASCAL Theme(s):

Place Management

PASCAL Theme(s):

Social Capital

PASCAL Theme(s):

Learning Regions

PASCAL Theme(s):

Governance

PASCAL Theme(s):

Innovation

PASCAL Theme(s):

Lifelong Learning

PASCAL Theme(s):

Third Mission

LCN - Network:

Entrepreneurial

Director of Administration (Helsinki City Construction & Technical Services)

City of Helsinki

Province:: Etela-Suomen laani
Country:: Finland

Street:

Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13

City:

Helsinki

Finland

Title:

First name:

Ilpo

Last name:

Laitinen

Qualifications:

PhD MBA

Arranged the cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa to join Pure-project. Member of the Regional Coordination Group. Was a member of a review team for Northern Illinois (US). Have subsequently been invited to make presentations within the Universitas 21 group of research-intensive universities in Melbourne and at the UBC in Vancouver.

Interests/Expertise:

Administrative sciences, New public management and leadership, General management, Complexity & change management and strategic management, Collaboration and network management

Policy analysis, qualitative methods, evaluation

Recent research/consultancy:

Lecturer, teacher and key note speaker at the University of Jyvaskyla and Continuing Professional Development Centre, executive education – tailored executive programs and eMBA-program ( http://www.cec.jyu.fi/english [1] and https://www.jyu.fi/jsbe/avance/en [2] ) 2008-.
Lecturer and teacher at the University of Lapland, administrative sciences, faculty of social sciences. ( http://www.ulapland.fi/InEnglish.iw3 [3] and http://www.ulapland.fi/InEnglish/Units/Faculty_of_Social_Sciences.iw3 [4] ), 2010-.
Evaluator, the Paras project of Paijat-Hame –region for restructuring municipalities and services, Regional Council of Päijät-Häme ( http://www.paijat-hame.fi/en [5] ), 2009.

Recognitions, positions, memberships:

Oxford Leadership Program, Major challenges in transport, mobility, urban mobility and urban design, 72 CPD by TSU, University of Oxford, 2014 – 2015
Associate Director, PASCAL International Observatory (2014 onwards)
Board Member of City of Jarvenpaa’s (home city) social and health care services committee (from y. 2005) (www.jarvenpaa.fi [6]).

Selected publications:

Stenvall, J., & Laitinen, I. (2015). Higher education engagement and innovation dynamics: Comparative study of regional innovative networks of the city of Helsinki and the city of Chicago. In C. Carlot, J.-M. Filloque, M. Osborne & P. Welsh (Eds.), The Role of Higher Education in Regional and Community Development and in the Time of Economic Crisis: NIACE.
Stenvall, J, Laitinen, I & Nyholm, I. (2014), Complex relational dynamics in public sector reforms: the case of municipal mergers in Finland [7], Newsletter of the Institute of Public Governance and Management.
Laitinen, Ilpo - Syväjärvi, Antti – Stenvall, Jari – Harisalo, Risto, Information management as function of data mining and ict in city government, EGPA 2001, SG1, Research in Progress paper, Helsinki 2010.
Ilpo Laitinen (ed.), Existing knowledge in use, (In Finnish,) City of Helsinki –publications, Helsinki 2010.
Ilpo Laitinen Evidence Based Management, (In Finnish,) Acta nr 216, The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, Helsinki 2009.
Ilpo Laitinen – Jari Stenvall – Timo Aarrevaara – Antti Syväjärvi, The final evaluation of the Paras project of Paijat-Hame –region for restructuring municipalities and services, Regional Council of Paijät-Hame, Lahti 2009.
Ilpo Laitinen Authentic Evaluation Ethics, (In Finnish,) Acta Universitatis Lapponiensis nr 133, Rovaniemi 2008.
Ilpo Laitinen Fitting the Glass Shoe: Ethical standards and evaluation;
Measuring Success: Evaluation Tools for Information, Consultation and Public Participation in Policy-making, OECD - GOV/PGC (2004) 9, 07 April 2004
Ilpo Laitinen – Petri Virtanen Beyond Evaluation Standards?, European Journal of Spatial Development, Refereed Articles, Oct 2004 no 13